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New autoplay policy in Chrome
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Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#62Can we find this auto-generated list of enabled/disabled sites anywhere? Can it be edited manually? Will Chrome notify why a particular site did/didn't auto-play a video? I like Inbox's recent behaviour that explains why it deems a particular email important - it would be good if this sort of explanation was more prevalent with publicly-available ML systems.
Seems to be this blob: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/b67034891a23389825...
Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#63How are HTML5 games supposed to deal with this? They don't really have media that you click on.
Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#64> As you browse the web, that list changes as Chrome learns and enables autoplay on sites where you play media with sound during most of your visits, and disables it on sites where you don’t. This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience. Predictable in a user application is the same result from the same action every time. UX changing based on opaque logic and heuristics is anything but p…
eh, as a user, it's not really predictable to me whether any given click will result in something autoplaying or not, it already feels like a crap shoot.
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#65> This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience. > predictable What could possibly be more predictable than disabling autoplay altogether? Google says it enabled autoplay for 'over 1000 sites', but we all know Google only cares about one thing and that is playing more ads on YouTube.
Cynicism aside, YouTube is a typical example of a good use for autoplay. A user clicking a link to YT almost always wants to watch the video. "Predictable" probably wasn't the right word for them to use, but I think this is a reasonable move by Google.
saying an advertisement company mostly cares about playing ads doesn't register as cynical to me.
Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#66> As you browse the web, that list changes as Chrome learns and enables autoplay on sites where you play media with sound during most of your visits, and disables it on sites where you don’t. This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience. Predictable in a user application is the same result from the same action every time. UX changing based on opaque logic and heuristics is anything but p…
I think it depends a lot on how stable the learning is. If it converges and becomes harder to unlearn, eventually you'll be working from a stable platform... but it doesn't carry over to another browser unless you use the sign in feature. So you'll get a stable experience within a browser but not between browsers of the same make/model.
Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#67I'm curious if I go to 1000 youtube pages and close in 6 seconds if Chrome will stop autoplay on youtube
Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#68The best way to improve autoplay is to disable it. chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
Just tried it. Didn't work. First off the only options are "default", "no user gesture required", "user gesture is required for cross-origin iframes", "Document user activation is required". None of which sounds like "disable autoplay"
Set the flag to "Document user activation is required", restarted browser, went to youtube, videos autoplay
Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#69Re: New autoplay policy in Chrome
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> summary: google allow 800 of the international youtube domains to autoplay, plus some 200 other publishers to pretend they are neutral. What? How is that an accurate summary? The whole post is about how Chrome will learn your preference for whether to autoplay on domains, not about how it is whitelisting certain domains.
The browser ships with a pre-whitelisted list. Those sites can autoplay videos from the beginning with no user interaction, which has dramatically less friction than unwhitelisted sites which must get you to interact across 20 different visits. That is a lot of friction. Imagine if someone makes a YouTube competitor. They won't have autoplay for an user's first 20 sessions at minimum! That's significant
I understand. That's a valid point. It's not a valid summary of the post, when only the whitelist portion is mentioned by itself.