Best would be stopping huge video downloads and auto plays. Sound is distracting but not that important as users have various levels of mute capabilities.
Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find the extension rather unreliable actually. There are a lot of sites (e.g. Twitter embeds) where turning off autoplay also seems to break manually clicking play as well (forcing me to temporarily disabled the extension and reload page).
> There are a lot of sites (e.g. Twitter embeds) where turning off autoplay also seems to break manually clicking play as well Pretty sure this is by design, as Twitter wants that content to auto-play. Forcing a poor experience for people who use blockers and making us white-list their domain seems a suitable strategy. It's something like Facebook chat in mobile mode. Facebook wants its cattle to install that spyware…
It has indeed been entirely disabled in the mobile site, and is nearly unusable if you request the desktop site (which of course can only be done through the browser settings, they don't provide a link for it). So I stopped using it!
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#133Autoplay 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 sou…
the trend seemed to be that enough people tolerated it to make advertisers and sites double down on it
I don't think that's what they're saying.
“As people watch more video on phones, they’ve come to expect sound when the volume on their device is turned on.”
Sure, when you watch a video you expect sound. That has nothing to do with autoplay, or expectations about websites in general. They're only answering the question they wished was asked, and consequently, people get played when they have the same interpretation as you did.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I put the 250kb number in. Maybe it should be higher. Maybe limit the dimensions. But for the love of god don't waste my bandwidth on streaming video.
If you set any arbitrary number, the ad networks will simply report that number as the size, or chunk the video into that size and make the page keep requesting small video after small video.
The browser could just cut off the network for the site until you click "approve".
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#135This is bad news for my personal homepage, the autoplay music is an important part of the experience.
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#136This is bad news for my personal homepage, the autoplay music is an important part of the experience.
I have to agree, nice website!
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#138I'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…
I always assumed having video auto-play allows for ads to run in between videos playing. Maybe some sites see that and (woefully) assume it is a good way to increase audience engagement. Either way, I totally agree it is a horrible experience for the audience.
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#139Look 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...
Meanwhile the autoplaying video ad with sound on that page has no pause/stop/mute controls. Exactly why "Pushing advertisers to create a better browsing experience seems like it’s good for everyone" will never work unless browsers draw some lines
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
The design document talks about applying a heuristic to determine which sites are expected by users to play video: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJ... > The Media Engagement Index (MEI) aims to provide a metric reflecting the engagement of a given user with regards to media playback on a given origin. The intent of this metric is to allow websites scoring high enough to be able to bypass t…
So, all existing pages get a bonus over new websites? That’s also suboptimal.
Hasn't that been the case since Google's, aka BackRub's, very birth?