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Hmm, 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.
Hmm, 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.
Google already gets more than enough data about your preferences without having to respect any of them.
See: 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
Solid evidence that Google knows just what I want from a browser: a taste of vomit.
See: 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
Oh god, that reminds me of another piece of bullshit Chrome magic. They made a system when the browser shares signatures of forms/fields with a central server, which sends back "crowdsourced" autocompletion rules, and they've made it almost impossible for developers to stop it from doing that [0] even when it's flat-out wrong and users are complaining about inappropriate autocomplete suggestions being shown/recorded.
Over the last ~8 years developers have submitted hundreds of examples [1] of why it's a stupid feature that at least needs a way to opt-out, but Chromium devs have kept it mandatory, and I suspect it's because Google/Alphabet is somehow exploiting all that leaked metadata about what forms people visit.
Use uBlock to remove that element. Dont know if it will save data.
[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoplaystopper/ejd...
[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...
Firefox blocks auto playing videos with sound by default. And you can also configure it to block all autoplay or or allow it globally, or per-website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay