What is going on with Chrome,
It seems Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play (no settings option and all extensions that used to work now are delisted from Chrome store).
I tried many from the Chrome store and few that are not yet removed, simply do not work anymore. Has Google Chrome team fallen so low that they insist on autoplaying and giving no option to stop it!?!?
Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?
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#2could you provide an example of a website that shows this behaviour?
Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?
#3See: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay
tl;dr: The browser attempts to learn your preference for each site automatically based on how you interact with videos. You can see what it's calculated by visiting chrome://media-engagement
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#4I find this behavior quite annoying. I would like to be able to block auto play by default across the entire Internet. I have to imagine this is simply a way to allow Google’s ad networks to play annoying ads.
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#5Chrome is not there to serve you. It is to serve Google.
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#6could you provide an example of a website that shows this behaviour?
It’s on the frontpage now as well: https://design.google/library/youtube-new-red-color
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#7could you provide an example of a website that shows this behaviour?
The YouTube video page comes to mind e.g https://youtu.be/8aIyHl5qP9I
It would me great if the user had the option to press play to start the video.
Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?
#8See: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay tl;dr: The browser attempts to learn your preference for each site automatically based on how you interact with videos. You can see what it's calculated by visiting chrome://media-engagement
Yeah, they've always claimed this but I've literally never wanted autoplay and it's never ever learned that preference, so...
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#9This is totally unsurprising. I'm sure Google realized that autoplaying gives them more ad revenue somehow. It was a massive mistake to allow an ad company control over your browser.
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#10Hmm, but there are ways of streaming video that don't have traditional Play/Pause/etc. buttons. If there's no way to turn it off, how can Chrome "learn my preferences"? Maybe it can sense me swearing? Not a Chrome user and definitely not starting now. Autoplay video is one of my great annoyances on the modern web.