This will be in Safari 11 too: https://webkit.org/blog/7734/auto-play-policy-changes-for-ma...
In Safari it auto-blocks ALL video, not just with sound.
Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
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#82> 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.
Safari 11 has this option. It defaults to "Stop Media with Sound", but you can configure it to "Never Auto-Play" as well, and you can override this setting for individual sites.
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#83I think, as a consumer, that is great. But, isn't a little worrying how Google is starting having so much power in induce how we can experience the Internet?
You're not wrong. Because of their browser share, Google on the desktop and Apple on mobile basically can control how people experience the internet, and they're now choosing to exert that power. It's something to keep an eye on. People might like what they're doing right now, but what if they don't like something they do two steps down the road?
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#84It'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.
It appears that there is already a feature in Chrome for Android which allows this. It will be removed around the same time as this patch to make things more 'consistent' >Removing the block autoplay setting that is currently available on Chrome for Android
I did not know there was an option for this.
I have now enabled it.
Thanks
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#85Auto-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...
I use that extension too, but it has severe issues with newsweek, which seems to detect playback failed and retry many times per second forever.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Safari 11 has this option. It defaults to "Stop Media with Sound", but you can configure it to "Never Auto-Play" as well, and you can override this setting for individual sites.
As usual Safari has the settings we want and need. What's the default?
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#87I'm probably missing something here, but the document says that media autoplay is allowed if visitors keep visiting the site and interacting with the video player: > The MEI score will be computed as is: > If number_of_visits Return 0 > Else > Return number_significant_playback / number_of_visits https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJ... Doesn't that mean some of the worst sites affected by this…
Yea, it seems like site-specific permission settings are the way on this. The "Do you want to share your location with this website?" check seems to work fairly well. I think "Do you want to allow videos with sound to autoplay?" would too.
You have to be very careful with that though.
Already it seems that 75%+ of news sites ask me to show notifications, and the alerts alone asking for it are getting annoying.
I'd be even more upset if every site now had to ask for permission to do all kinds of things (Do you want to allow sound? Do you want to allow cookies? Do you want to allow video?)
I don't know the answer on how to deal with this stuff, but I don't think putting everything behind requests to the user is a good option (and clearly just allowing everything is a bad idea as well).
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ad tech is indistinguishable from toddlers who haven't learned the difference between good attention and bad attention.
Is not that they haven't learned, it's that even if you're pissed at an advertisement or whatever other annoying thing they did, at least you're looking at it. And will probably remember it. That's what's important!
Hence ad blockers and advertisers crying over browser makers reducing the ability to track users.[0]
[0]http://www.adweek.com/digital/every-major-advertising-group-...
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#89What 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.
Just allow it for youtube, while keeping everything else blocked. Whitelisting is the best option because there aren't that many websites primarily about playing video. Nobody goes to Youtube for other activities. Clicking a video link means you intend watching.
News websites are the worst. Clicking a news article means I want to read the article, not watch a video. If I want to watch the video on a news website (rare) I will press play. If they autoplay videos, I send them nasty angry feedback and don't return if I can help it.
Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
#90Auto-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...
Why o why is the sound always on max when it starts with autoplay?