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What 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.
So I hope they make sote-settings (like with JS) and we can both have our way.
Some people like sound at home and some at work don't.
I'm not sure why all these websites decided that auto-playing video is a good thing. It's annoying as hell. I click on an article for reading, I'm not clicking on a youtube playlist. The latest craze among web designers being videos that follow the reader even when they are scrolling down the page! Enough! Can we have a designer here explaining why they do this? If it's about engagement, i'm not going back to your we…
The video that follows you down the page is trying to help you, not annoy you. It gives you the chance to read the article while having the vision there too. It's only a problem if the video autoplays, which unfortunately is all of the time on all sites that do this.
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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…
But at the same time... they also make people blind to them. Get too many alerts, and people will just ignore them. Will people just click yes if every site asks to use autoplaying videos?
It's hard to tell.
I want something like uBlock running in Chrome on Android. I can do it in CopperheadOS or with Firefox, but it blows my mind that Google recognizes these types of issues but won't deal with perhaps the most egregious one.
http://gizmodo.com/chrome-will-soon-block-autoplay-videos-wi...
I can't stop laughing.
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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…
Make notifications and autoplaying vidoes OPT-IN. A site requests the feature, and a little icon pops up on the far right of the URL bar. The user has to know to click that button to allow notifications, or auto-playing, or other exploitable features like Javascript message popups.
Now, if they want people to use those features, they simply have to write a message on their website telling them how to click that button. "Want videos to autoplay? Click here!"
But the truth is, we all know what this is really about. It's not about features, and it's not about user experience. It's all about getting more money from advertisers by telling them you've got X more "impressions" from your users even if they're not real interactions with the ads.