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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
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dream of a search engine that heavily penalizes websites with advertisements on it.
Seems unlikely given the biggest search engine makes the majority of its money from ads :(
Search engines dont earn money from ads on other sites though. The problem is that all alternative engines are based on google and bing, and that wont change soon, so there's no flexibility.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#193Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the common sense solution. And what sites are replacing videos with massive gifs? Buzzfeed-like sites have always been filling their pages with 250 megabytes of gifs. News sites with half a dozen autoplaying videos certainly won't be replacing their videos with multi-gigabyte gif versions. And it seems like detecting a large, constantly repainted canvas would be easy enough.
And if you replace videos with gigabytes of gifs, customers will leave because the gifs take ages to load.
Or complain that their browser is slow/ battery life is abysmal.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems unlikely given the biggest search engine makes the majority of its money from ads :(
Search engines dont earn money from ads on other sites though. The problem is that all alternative engines are based on google and bing, and that wont change soon, so there's no flexibility.
Google earns money from ads on all sorts of websites.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't turn off gifs or canvas because it would just break too much internet. I could imagine and equal reaction thread here if google deemed some gifs and canvas uses "unworthy" and were blockable.
This is not an excuse - the user should have the freedom to disable whatever they want - who is to say that your definition of a broken internet matches mine?
This.
If I, the user, disable some functionality and the site doesn't work I can:
A: add the site to an allow list B: temporarily enable the feature for that site C: stop using the site
Most of the time I'll give a site the benefit of the doubt, only when they pull shady tricks like dark patterns and whatnot do I just stop using the site.
Reddit is a great current example. I will not use their site or their app because they're both awful, and reddit is trying to force the app down my throat. If the app I use gets shut down by API changes I'll just stop using reddit.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#197(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…
Frankly, for me, the autoplay issue was the straw that broke the camel's back. With Firefox, I keep autoplay disabled and only enable it on some sites. Otherwise the browser becomes unusable, especially on some news websites. Therefore your explanations make little sense to me because this option works in Firefox perfectly - at least for me.
What is funny is that when you search for "Chrome disable autoplay" one of the top results is the extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... - which adds srvtrck.com (blocked by uBlock origin) for each request. This is not the web browsing experience I want to live with.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#198Google 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…
Disclaimer: I work for Google
1. I was annoyed at killing reader too. However, in hindsight before we had Google reader and that was it. Now there is Feedly, Feedbin and multiple self hosted aggregators. And a plethora of RSS clients. RSS did not “die” because of lack of tech around it but because majority prefers twitter and Facebook. Had Reader stayed, would people be lamenting its dominant position?
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#199(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…
>(disclaimer: I work at Google, not on Chrome)
As an insider, do you think Google in 2020 would attempt to try to use its near-monopoly on search to force users to use other Google products they don't want and can't opt out of?
(From the outside this is what it seems like to me, so curious what the feeling is like on the inside.) Thanks for your honesty.
Re: Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
#200The real scandal is that people still using Google's Chrome.