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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 chickenfries »

rhizome wrote: post #123
chickenfries wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's fair. I just feel like the cat is out of the bag on gifs. If all browsers rolled out something that blocked autoplay on every mp4 or webm regardless of audio being enabled or present, I imagine a good amount of users would feel like things had "broken even if they'd appreciate that videos on news articles don't autoplay at all (although they'd still be able to follow you around the page).

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 »

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...

>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

Perhaps even worse than that, some sites (including TIME, at least previously) unpause the video when you scroll.

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Post by cyphar »

artursapek wrote: post #14

Doesn't YouTube technically autoplay videos? Is this going to disable that?

I guess it'll be handled the same way "intrusive advertising" is going to be handled. That is, Google is always going to be acceptable and it's only non-Google services that will be blocked.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by thinbeige »

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 wish every browser would stop sound and video by default

Sound yes but why video?

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

ghostly_s wrote: post #132
gaius_baltar wrote: post #69

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> 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!

mbasic.facebook.com lets me get messages and send them.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by mistersquid »

thinbeige wrote: post #144
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 wish every browser would stop sound and video by default Sound yes but why video?

Video often presents a significant visual distraction when one tries to focus on the text nearby.

It can bad enough that I'll find the auto-playing video element in my browser's DOM inspector and delete it.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by fish_fan »

ehsankia wrote: post #70
dguaraglia wrote: post #63

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The latest craziness is "news" websites that have an autoplay video + an autoplay ad, and their actual content is just another video, because apparently reading 10 lines of text is harder than sitting through a two minute slideshow with the same ten lines of text and some pretty pictures. It's getting ridiculous.

I don't think it's a simple problem though. I want my videos on Youtube, Twitch and other similar sites to auto play, without having to click it manually every single time. We get into a whitelist/blacklist situation. The best way is to stick to one way, and allow users to fully unblock a site. Right now, it auto plays but you can fully blacklist a whole domain. I could also see it as everything is blocked and you wh…

If only you could somehow enable users to make decisions for themselves we could solve this....
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