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Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Post by londons_explore »

sg47 wrote: post #6
znpy wrote: post #2

Google continues the war against its own users.

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, especi…

Google reader only had 2 million users.

They just happen to be the 2 million most vocal people in tech circles...

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Post by ezconnect »

airstrike wrote: post #20
untog wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The general tech community is a tiny fraction of their user base, though. Put simply, they don’t care.

I subscribe to the idea that the tech community overlaps with the definition of "early adopters", who become zealots driving everyone else's adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

The problem is they don't need early adopters anymore, almost everyone already adopted their thing.

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

#23

Post by userbinator »

creato wrote: post #15
GPUboy wrote: post #14

This could also just be a mistake. There's often regressions or bugs in mobile chrome.

I mean, the issue literally is that the option exists, it just doesn't work. It doesn't sound intentional. But then again, it was reported 9 months ago. It should have been fixed by now.

the option exists, it just doesn't work

It might not be true in this instance, but I've seen so many times where "the option doesn't fully work and hasn't been working for a while, so let's just remove it entirely" has happened to features in other products.

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Post by barkerja »

toyg wrote: post #19
yalogin wrote: post #4

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.

Works for Apple.

Not sure what you're referring to, but Safari has three configurable options for auto-play:

- Allow All Auto-Play

- Stop Media with Sound

- Never Auto-Play

This can be configured on a global level, or on a site-by-site basis.

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

#25

Post by snoshy »

pteraspidomorph wrote: post #17
bfuclusion wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does anyone know if there is a way in the new Firefox for Android to stop it from keeping my tabs open when I close the window without using "Quit"?

Yes, there's an option in Settings to close open tabs on quit.

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Post by Gibbon1 »

untog wrote: post #18

There’s a [dead] post here from a Chrome engineer that links to the relevant Chrome issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106364... > full autoplay blocking is counter productive as images and can do "video" playback just fine. We had this issue on mobile and ended up enabling muted autoplay there to avoid that issues.We found many websites having 100MB gifs that could be one order of magnitude…

Doesn't slack look at the size of a gif and skip playing it if it's bigger than 4mb or something?

I'm reminded of Steve Jobs comment on 'toner heads' and why Xerox failed. Google is now run by MBA's and Ad people. So they will continue to do things like this.

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Post by craftinator »

airstrike wrote: post #20
untog wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The general tech community is a tiny fraction of their user base, though. Put simply, they don’t care.

I subscribe to the idea that the tech community overlaps with the definition of "early adopters", who become zealots driving everyone else's adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

I subscribe to this idea too. Unfortunately, I think Google is too large, too influential, and too entrenched for the standard tech adoption life cycle to be the dominant factor.

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Post by axaxs »

airstrike wrote: post #20
untog wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The general tech community is a tiny fraction of their user base, though. Put simply, they don’t care.

I subscribe to the idea that the tech community overlaps with the definition of "early adopters", who become zealots driving everyone else's adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

Agreed. I've turned my wife, daughter, and Mom, none of whom are tech oriented at all, into Brave converts on mobile.

Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

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Post by [deleted] »

sg47 wrote: post #6
znpy wrote: post #2

Google continues the war against its own users.

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, especi…

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