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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 chrisallenlane »

YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 wrote: post #142
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.

I've noticed this on many other news sites recently as well. I hope this trend dies soon. This is an immediate "close tab" for me when it happens.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by danso »

wlesieutre wrote: post #62
msla wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ad tech is indistinguishable from toddlers who haven't learned the difference between good attention and bad attention.

Is not that they haven't learned, it's that even if you're pissed at an advertisement or whatever other annoying thing they did, at least you're looking at it. And will probably remember it. That's what's important!

I agree that it's possible that annoying ads do work for advertisers. Just like super-expensive Super Bowl ads bring in a good return on investment even if I think I already like Coca-Cola enough to not need to see another commercial. But the ads could be both beneficial for one party (the advertiser, and/or the brand) while being hugely terrible for the host. I'm a news junkie but I actively do not go to CNN.com. Not just I don't visit its front page, but will just ignore any content that's being shared from that domain because I know the ad/video-junk consistently ruins my ability to consume (and enjoy) the content, no matter how great or important it might be.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by daveFNbuck »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's even more complicated because I only want YouTube to autoplay when I open it in a foreground tab.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by dzhiurgis »

mistersquid wrote: post #147
thinbeige wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Do you also block gif's and JS/CSS animations?

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by bartread »

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.

And this is why we can't have nice things. FWIW I agree with the decision to stop autoplaying, but it's worth pointing out that it does have negative consequences:

- Stops YouTube (et al) videos autoplaying (whitelist to fix?) - Probably stops games playing music when first opened (e.g., https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/, although note I have settings to disable music and SFX)

God forbid we get to a point where automatic execution of JavaScript is disabled by default but I can see it going that way.

Like I say, I agree with the decision, but sadly all these fixes for reigning in the excesses of the worst scumbag websites make the web overall just a little bit worse for everybody. :/

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by hkjayakumar »

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 extension is no longer being actively worked on [1]. It works on some websites for now, but will probably be circumvented in the future.

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay/blob/maste...

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by paulmd »

amiga-workbench wrote: post #136
willlll wrote: post #135

This 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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Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by paulmd »

camus2 wrote: post #12

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…

It's not really a mystery, it's about the ad revenue.

Re: Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

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Post by mistersquid »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #164
mistersquid wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you also block gif's and JS/CSS animations?

I do remove animated GIFs that distract my focus when reading text.

I haven't yet felt the need to block CSS animations. Up to now, UX animations aren't so distracting they impede my reading. I think this may be because CSS is generally not used in ways that constantly distract while reading text.

A CSS fade or transition on scroll doesn't bother me as much as animated video/GIFs.

EDIT: Clarity.

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