YouTube Auto Preview Mode?

anyone else see this?

[samwest]

Lately while viewing a youtube video, once it completed, it moves automatically to the next video, plays the entire AD, but only plays 10 seconds of the next video and then cues up the next video views the entire ad, then 10 seconds of the actual video and so on...so, each time it loads a new video, of course it includes the entire ADVERTISING playback....but only 10 seconds of the video.

I walked away from my PC for a few minutes and heard it going through video after video with no user input whatsoever. Is this just one more sneaky way to churn more ads and ad revenue for Google? If so, I believe it's borderline fraud for the advertiser who's ads are being shown to nobody.

Can anyone out there verify this preview mode? I'm am able to duplicate it on my PC. Hope it's not a virus.

[lucy24]

What do you mean by "next video"? If I'm watching a playlist, it cycles automatically through the whole thing on an infinite loop. (This may be at the playlist creator's discretion. I've never made one myself, so I wouldn't know.) It doesn't stop at all unless I tell it to.

[samwest]

- After digging further, I find an Autoplay button in the upper right which I never noticed before. I can only assume it was added in the enabled mode. Bet it cost a few advertisers. Anyone know the date that the autoplay button was added?