Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
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Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
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Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
#2Technical details: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/audio-video/auto...
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#3Finally, we are past the 90's fad of auto-playing crap on page load... thanks, Chrome.
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#4It's a start. Allowing users to disable autoplay altogether would be better, but shutting down the audio is better than nothing.
It's a shame that browsers increasingly have to actively defend against website behavior, instead of just being tools for displaying those websites; but, well, here we are.
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#5> The content is muted, or does not include any audio (video only)
Sigh. So no surprise audio but nothing to stop the trend of silent video ads or (even worse) muted live TV?
How about NO auto playing live video or files over 250k? Don't waste my bandwidth streaming stuff I'm not trying to watch.
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#6This, along with Google's plans to integrate an ad blocker into Chrome (mentioned at the end of the article), add up to Chrome's team seriously looking to clean up its act.
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#7Autoplay seems to be something universally reviled and yet the trend seemed to be that enough people tolerated it to make advertisers and sites double down on it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/19/facebook-...
> During Facebook’s announcement of the feature in February, product manager Dana Sittler and engineering manager Alex Li said: “As people watch more video on phones, they’ve come to expect sound when the volume on their device is turned on.”
> *"After testing sound on in News Feed and hearing positive feedback, we’re slowly bringing it to more people.”
Likely Chrome's feature won't affect FB given how much FB is on mobile but I'm interested in how media sites, such as CNN, will be impacted. Seems like they've become dependent on throwing up an annoying newscast video (with post-roll ads) for every article. Many times unrelated.
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#8It's a start. Allowing users to disable autoplay altogether would be better, but shutting down the audio is better than nothing. It's a shame that browsers increasingly have to actively defend against website behavior, instead of just being tools for displaying those websites; but, well, here we are.
Autoplay music was in for a while, went out, then came back in, from what I recall: Back in the 1990s, it was MIDI files on the stereotypical Geocities page, or completely hand-made pages, and that went out in a massive design backlash against those kinds of sites.
Now, it's coming back in the form of autoplay video on news sites, for example, which would have been impossible in the dial-up era.
So this isn't a new thing, it's an old one that's come back. Annoying people have always been annoying.
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#9A step in the right direction.
Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
#10It's a start. Allowing users to disable autoplay altogether would be better, but shutting down the audio is better than nothing. It's a shame that browsers increasingly have to actively defend against website behavior, instead of just being tools for displaying those websites; but, well, here we are.
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