It's a war for attention, and ultimately, money. If sites can't autoplay video with sound, they'll switch to more of the junk videos that make it onto Facebook (muted by default, I believe), which include giant captions or other distracting elements.
Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
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#22As much as I like this idea, I'm sure that this will also cause problems in certain cases. Therefore, I'd like to see per-website "capability settings", just like you can allow smartphone-apps to access your microphone, camera, et cetera. And an API for websites to determine which capabilities they have, and an API to request the browser to ask the user to add a capability.
With an always veto by default option, similar to the way pop up windows are blocked / handled. I much prefer seeing the little red x over a window icon in the location bar that I can click on in my own time than the modal drop down "this site wants to send you notifications" thing that I have to deal with right away, especially since I am always going to say 'no thanks' to the notifications and almost certainly autoplay as well.
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#23> 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.
I really want no auto playing of any multimedia. I wish browsers didn't support this functionality at all. The user should not ever be forced to do / go through something he does not expect to happen.
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#24What about YouTube? I'm sure they'll add an exception for it, but it technically does classify as automatically playing a video when you click on a link.
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#25> 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.
I really want no auto playing of any multimedia. I wish browsers didn't support this functionality at all. The user should not ever be forced to do / go through something he does not expect to happen.
I think it's ok for specific video pages on multimedia-first sites, like Youtube. (I'm not a fan of autoplay when you go to a page with multiple results, such as a creator's page.) That's about it, though.
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#26Auto-playing crap bugs the hell out of me. Some news sites do it as well even when you go and Pause the player, it will go on and play ahead after a few seconds.
Started using "Disable HTML5 Autoplay"[1] extension in Chrome and works great. I wish every browser would stop sound and video by default until i hit Play or have a setting for that.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...
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#27It'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 t…
It was also somewhat popular in the 2000s on Myspace.
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#28>Chrome will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won’t play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media. I wonder if a certain "Tube" site will have "indicated interest" on by default, hmm...
Probably. I can't imagine the point of going to a youtube page that is solely dedicated to a video and having no intention of watching or listening to it. I wouldn't be opposed to being required to click play though.
> I can't imagine the point of going to a youtube page that is solely dedicated to a video and having no intention of watching or listening to it.
When you click a notification of a comment reply, it takes you to the video page, jumps down to the comment, and then starts playing the video. This means you have to scroll up, pause the video, then scroll back down to read the comment in peace.
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#29> 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.
This would break using mp4s as "gifs" which is a pretty common practice these days. Taking away these features might cause people to go back to actual gifs which would be terrible... so I can understand why they want to leave this loophole open.
I would like the idea of having a user configured limit for autoplaying gifs though...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably. I can't imagine the point of going to a youtube page that is solely dedicated to a video and having no intention of watching or listening to it. I wouldn't be opposed to being required to click play though.
> I can't imagine the point of going to a youtube page that is solely dedicated to a video and having no intention of watching or listening to it. When you click a notification of a comment reply, it takes you to the video page, jumps down to the comment, and then starts playing the video. This means you have to scroll up, pause the video, then scroll back down to read the comment in peace.
Good enough reason for me to keep it muted and / or paused.