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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 fish_fan »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #101
ehsankia wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> everything is blocked and you whitelist Youtube. Maybe even automatically does it if you click play on a few videos That's basically what they're doing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJ...

Is there anyway to wipe the whitelist?

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by fish_fan »

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?

I basically never open a web page to look at a video. For me, it's a straight up waste of bandwidth.

I don't mind clicking on eg youtube videos.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by kevinstubbs »

dguaraglia wrote: post #63
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...

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.

They do it because video preroll CPM is waayyy higher than display advertising. Like up to $15/cpm.. Multiples of that if you can get the right deals in place (not remnant).

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by sirclueless »

fish_fan wrote: post #150
ehsankia wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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....

Not really a solution. It works for repeat visits to sites users visit often, it doesn't really work at scale. Users want sane defaults; most of them will never change them. A world where sites are by default as malicious as users allow them to be is not a world where the internet is a friendly and powerful resource for everyone.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by astronautjones »

drewg123 wrote: post #59
danso wrote: post #7

Autoplay 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…

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.

They're really bad about it. But I recently discovered that they offer this service:

http://lite.cnn.io/en

I really wish washington post, nyt, etc would offer something similar, and really miss the days where everyone had wap versions available

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

k3oni wrote: post #130
lima wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Autoplay blocking is built into Firefox via an about:config option. Much better than this half-baked solution that still permits annoying behavior.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by dzhiurgis »

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...

Problem with disabling autoplay completely is that it sort of breaks gifv and embedded content inside reddit and twitter. You sometimes need to press Play or space bar to get them going.

Thankfully in latest Safari you can check "Audio needs user action" which seems to solve the problem, although now some videos manage to start autoplay without my action.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

koonsolo wrote: post #49
j_s wrote: post #31

Devil's advocate / counterpoint: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/908675882587484160 My complaint here is that Google is making things worse for media/game pages by making life good for people reading web content proper

And this one: "What's interesting here is how what this really demonstrates is that Flash really was exactly what we wanted". With HTML5, who didn't see annoying JavaScript popups and autoplay videos coming? Seriously. If you think about the web, think about 2 things: 1. Text content 2. Multimedia content People complaining about Flash always used arguments for nr 1. For me, I want my text content to be really static…

NoScript tames all the dark patterns enabled by HTML5.
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