Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

Google continues the war against its own users.

This is weird. They see the general tech community slowly turning against them and they double down on all the wrong things they were doing that caused the negativity.

Indeed. A list of Google's decisions that drive me crazy.

1. Killing Google Reader 2. Removing swipe from Google News feed (both Chrome homepage and News feed in Android that's part of the launcher) 3. Deprecating Google Play Music and switching to Youtube Music (the interface is horrible and intended for videos). I'm a paying user of Google Play Music and this is idiotic. 4. Random recommendations in Youtube, especially more of the same. I have to open one-off videos in a private window so that I don't get recommendations 5. Minor changes in G Suite that make no sense (I'm forgetting what these are at the moment) 6. Showing ads for everything even when I'm just looking for medical information 7. GBoard suddenly asking me to add misspelled words to the dictionary 8. Google Maps interface changes (all the freaking time)

I really wish Google would send all its PMs on a sabbatical for a while so that I can go about using these products in peace without random changes.

Yeah, which is why I stick with it even though they just butchered a few areas of the UI (most notably the home screen). Fortunately they seem to be listening to reviews and fixing things.