iOS safari has always blocked auto playing video, so I'm not sure what you're complaining about there. Very recently they've finally started allowing it for video that has no audio track (or that has the audio track muted), which seems to match what you want.
Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
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Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#262YC's AirBNB autoplays video on the front page. Drives me crazy since while traveling I'm often on a bandwidth restricted connection
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was also true of popups. It still is. Yet it became such a scourge from people misusing it that browsers interested in providing their users the best experience provided an option to disable them (where we are now with auto-play) and eventually turned on that option by default. Pop-up blocking became a feature users would switch browsers for, forcing all vendors to add it. If advertisers continue to use auto-pla…
> > Some websites have legitimate use for autoplaying media. Some users (believe it or not) actually _like_ their videos autoplaying when they scroll through their Facebook feed or whatever media site they visit. > This was also true of popups. It still is. Is this analogy really correct, in the sense that there are legitimate , user-focussed cases for pop-ups? I know lots of web-sites want me to see pop-ups, and som…
Well, media players and help sections are decent use cases for popups. Opening external links in a new tab is also great. I've even played some browser-based games that used popups to minimize chrome, enable alt-tabbing and force a cookie reset.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Re 2): Pinterest. It's the cancer of Google image search. I don't get how Google's search ranking doesn't massively penalize that behaviour. I'd rather stomach an advertisement than the "plz register" BS.
Yeah, isn't it against google's policy to present different content to bots and to fleshy users?
Not anymore apparently, at least for the big players. I believe it is still the stated policy and you won't get away with it if you are small.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Y'know, youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay to work.
>> youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay Not me. I usually open a few tabs at the same time and have to stop every video manually. That's pretty annoying. I wish it didn't have autoplay.
The YouTube Plus add-on has an option to turn off YT autoplay, as well as a number of other quality-of-life things.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Re 2): Pinterest. It's the cancer of Google image search. I don't get how Google's search ranking doesn't massively penalize that behaviour. I'd rather stomach an advertisement than the "plz register" BS.
Yeah, isn't it against google's policy to present different content to bots and to fleshy users?
That is their policy, but they don't appear to punish people who violate the "spirit" of it and many of these sites don't literally violate the rule.
In the case of pinterest (and quora), for example, the whole page you are looking for is there, it just gets obscured by an obnoxious overlay that makes it impossible for you to see/interact with it all from a browser unless you register.
I'm sure what the googlebot gets at the html/css/js level is the same thing the user gets. The difference being the bot doesn't care about the semi-transparent blocking overlay because the bot is just parsing text/images/links individually and not trying to interact with the page the way a human does.
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#267how about a :obnoxious selector for links?
autoplay video, please register, and messing with history would be lovely.
I guess it's because there's no good way to populate the selector without visiting the link target.
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#268Things that make me just close tabs straight away: 1) Autoplaying videos, especially ads. 2) Pop-ups / overlays. 3) Loading lots of extra elements causing text to jump around. Especially true if I'm just browsing around and click on something that looks interesting, the above will take that thing from "this might be worth 30 seconds" to "not worth it". Why kill that little dopamine boost someone just got from clickin…
Your know there are HN readers who write this crap. I wonder if they'll chime in on why they do.
They don't live in a tech center and the local spam shop / crappy web property is one of the few local places who are hiring.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awesome, thanks! Any chance you are putting it on the official extension store?
I am open to handing it over to someone I can trust who wants to distribute it there.
Cool. I never published an extension for Chrome ever, but following the guide at https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/publish looks bearable.
If you put your repository under some kind of open source licence, I can try the process on a lazy Sunday afternoon, if you like.
My email address is in my profile.
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#270I simply leave when it happens; what could they possibly have to interest me when they are dumb enough to auto-feed their stuff.