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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

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Post by rhizome »

GrumpyNl wrote: post #90
k3oni wrote: post #26

Auto-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?

Because it's a setting in the videoplayer initialization.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by fapjacks »

All the stipulations here basically just mean it's a decision with no legs. If you don't want autoplaying audio, just install one of the many browser extensions that prevent this, e.g. "Disable HTML5 Autoplay". Alternatively, uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Extra go a very long way to cleaning up my experience just by blocking any ads. It really only seems Bloomberg has gone out of their way to worsen the experience for UBO users, but that's not news you can't get somewhere else. The IBTimes is another with autoplay audio/video which is hard to completely kill, even with the extension armed. But again, that's not news you can't get somewhere else usually.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by rhizome »

chickenfries wrote: post #29
MBCook wrote: post #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.

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...

A site's bandwidth bills are not more important than my annoyance.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by sly010 »

ryan-c wrote: post #85
k3oni wrote: post #26

Auto-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.

I would argue in that case that newsweek is the one who has severe issues.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by sly010 »

Klathmon wrote: post #87
jessriedel wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> I don't know the answer on how to deal with this stuff.

It's not a question of technology or UI. If the same thing happened in your email inbox you would know the answer. Mark as spam. The only real solution is to stop visiting sites that make your life miserable (regardless of the medium). Most of the time they don't add a lot of value anyway and they don't link to sources so why are we even trying to fix them?

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by KyleBerezin »

Look at this headline, "Chrome Will Soon Block Autoplay Videos With Sound—Here's Why You Should Be Worried" [1] What a brazen attempt at fear-mongering so they can protect their ability to be more ad-intrusive than porn websites.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/chrome-will-soon-block-autoplay-videos-wi...

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by drewg123 »

lamontcg wrote: post #79
drewg123 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've pretty much stopped going to CNN because of this. I have managed to block a lot of this video by using privacy badger and blocking the underlying CDNs where it is played from. However, I've never been able to block CNN effectively, so I've just given up on them.

Newsweek's autoplay is literally cancer. I've got the disable HTML5 autoplay, but the newsweek site is so aggressive about autoplaying that it bugs out the browser.

The "just read" chrome extension seems to work pretty well at stopping media playback for Newsweek.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by Someone »

MBCook wrote: post #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.

Wouldn't autoplay start before your browser can know whether the file it is playing is over 250k?

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by k3oni »

lima wrote: post #103
k3oni wrote: post #26

Auto-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...

Yay, let's install another extension with full access to all your stuff!

Don't get me wrong, i wish i wouldn't have to install one single extension and that this would be a built-in feature or that the website having a video to show me won't auto-play the damn thing from the get go, but this is the world we live in.
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