Why not allow users to specify that they do not want any site with autoplay videos (in any shape) to show up in their top results? Alternatively - when Google shows a search result, indicate if the website has autoplay videos, this way I can avoid clicking it.
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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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.
Unfortunately, that helps exactly zilch. Brave, along with all other Blink/Chromium based browsers and frameworks, further entrenches Chrome as the platform.
Either use Firefox on Android or give up. For desktop, you have at least Firefox, Otter Browser, and Epiphany as options.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
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I notice your comment just a second after I posted this comment that suggests a reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403934 ...and it turns out I was right! "It doesn't work all the time, let's remove it." Frankly, I really really hate that attitude.
Well... not so much "it doesn't work all the time", but "publishers are reacting to the existence of this option by using grossly inefficient alternatives which we can't block".
Except the alternatives can be blocked.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#85tangentially related: what's everyone's solution for blocking autoplaying sticky videos? By that I mean the kind that usually shows up on news sites or tech blogs. It usually manifests as a "recommended" video that's totally unrelated to the article at hand, and stars playing without you clicking the play button. If you scroll past the video, many of them convert to a sticky mini player that stays around wherever you…
Ad blocking.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#86(disclaimer: I work at Google, not on Chrome) The rationale here seems to be that by blocking video autoplay, Chrome incentivized sites shipping huge animated GIFs, or decoding video in JS and painting to canvas, both of which are very suboptimal for users. Another comment points to this issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106364... quote: Unfortunately, full autoplay blocking is counter prod…
This doesn't pass the smell test, at all. This is the equivalent of saying "Oh no, spammers have discovered we're blocking emails with 'Viagra' in them so now they're spelling it 'V1agra', might as well give up and not try to block that penis enlargement spam."
The user intent is clearly to not show large animations on the page without user consent. Seems just as easy to block large animated gifs, or canvas updates, with the same browser setting.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#87This thread is a microcosm of the problems with the world at large atm. 70% of the response are people frothing at the mouth outrages over those evil "other people" when the other people had nothing but good intentions. Then absolutely refusing to see those good intentions and painting everything as poorly as possible.
I’m not sure Google is entitled to any charitable opinions at this point.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thank you for trying to help, but I think you missed a part of the question.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#89A lot of comments here trying to explain this away but let me point out that Apple disabled autoplaying unmuted videos in moble Safari years ago (it's not even behind a setting as far as I know) and I can't imagine them backing off of that any time soon. On the contrary, Apple will savage decades old APIs just to marginally improve privacy [0]. Which is what Google would do if users were the customer. Apple is proble…
> autoplaying unmuted videos autoplaying unmuted videos have been disabled on almost every browser, on desktop and on mobile, for years. This isn't unique to Safari and Apple. This is specifically about autoplaying muted videos, which gifs and canvas can replace.
So block autoplaying animated gifs and canvas animations?
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#90There’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.
It does, but the Slack servers still need to download the image first to know it’s size. There’s no equivalent for a browser. You could rely on Content-Length headers but then ad servers are just going to stop sending them.