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One actually useful function of the macbook touch bar is that it gives you an always-on scrubber.
Is that actually true for all videos? Lots of sites that refuse to use standard video embedding, and my intuition says those would block the scrubber.
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This is the Automate car debate all over again. Society is so risk adverse today that they do not want to allow anything that is not perfectly safe for 1000% of all situations that anyone can ever think of. This device that would make people lives better will likely be bogged down in 1000's of "safety" regulations around 1:1,000,000 chance events of "what if a rat chews on the cord , while at the same time a bird lan…
On the contrary, I'd argue most people who would need this are just far better off moving to a single story residence. I live with an 87 year old, and every dang thing except clear open floor is a big risk. We don't need contraptions, we just needed a first floor accessible bathroom.
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Is that actually true for all videos? Lots of sites that refuse to use standard video embedding, and my intuition says those would block the scrubber.
I've never seen it not work. It even works for embedded audio, like alert beeps. I'm sure YouTube had some way to stop you using it on ads, but I block those anyway.
Makes me want to dig in and reverse engineer it
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I had a 2016 MBP for a while and never noticed it once. Interesting how we all get set in particular set of usage patterns. I might have liked it more if I'd ever even noticed that. Maybe it wasn't something that was as exposed in 2016?
It's a Safari-only feature, so it's possible you never noticed it if you used Chrome