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Google Chrome Will No Longer Autoplay Content With Sound In January 2018 (venturebeat.com)
Starting next year, Google Chrome will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won't play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media. The company was experimenting with such an option last month, but now it looks to be part of the browser's roadmap. VentureBeat reports: Chrome 63 will add a new user option to completely disable audio for individual sites. This site-muting option will persist between browsing sessions, allowing users to customize when and where audio will play. Chrome 64 will take the controls to the next level. By this version, Google's browser will allow autoplay to occur only when users want media to play. Here is Google's timeline for making autoplaying sound more consistent with user expectations in Chrome: September 2017: Site muting available in Chrome 63 Beta, begin collecting Media Engagement Index (MEI) data in Chrome 62 Canary and Dev; October 2017: Site muting available in Chrome 63 Stable, autoplay policies available in Chrome 63 Canary and Dev; December 2017: Autoplay policies available in Chrome 64 Beta; January 2018: Autoplay policies available in 64 Stable.
I hate autoplay video. I never want to see them, and they suck up my bandwidth even when I set them to stop (they keep loading , thinking I'll change my mind).
Google, I know you own youtube. But FFS I don't want 99.999% of the videos websites want to push on me. I don't want them eating up my bandwidth. I don't want them sucking up my memory. I flat out do not fucking want auto play video to do anything but fail for me.
Google Chrome Will No Longer Autoplay Content With Sound In January 2018
But what about February?
Better known as 318230.
I hate autoplay video. I never want to see them, and they suck up my bandwidth even when I set them to stop (they keep loading , thinking I'll change my mind).
Google, I know you own youtube. But FFS I don't want 99.999% of the videos websites want to push on me. I don't want them eating up my bandwidth. I don't want them sucking up my memory. I flat out do not fucking want auto play video to do anything but fail for me.
Read the fucking SUMMARY.
Chrome 64 will take the controls to the next level. By this version, Google's browser will allow autoplay to occur only when users want media to play.
And within a month, sites will start popping up something that says, "We see you've blocked video with sound! We understand why, but we depend on that support to provide you the best experience and keep our site running smoothly."
And you won't be able to browse the site.
Do some Google advertising deals for autoplay videos with sound expire on 12/31?
Anything 'multimedia' should get a placeholder that needs to be clicked before it even starts to download, never mind play.
Anything cross-site should be blocked - scripts, images, style sheets... I don't care. Host it on your own server or proxy it or it shouldn't display. And in addition to being hosted on the same site, a script shouldn't be allowed to request resources from any site but the one it is loaded from.
Cookies... I can't think of a good way to stop cookies from being used as trackers except to have it be standard that they use plain language tags and browsers offer a pop-up to show the cookies the site you're currently on is using or has placed on your system, along with the ability to delete any values you want.
how about NO FUCKING AUTO PLAY AT ALL option. I want audio and video to play ONLY when I tell it to play.
<eom>
Dear Firefox,
Please copy this feature from Chrome.
(Yes, I know I normally tell you not to copy Chrome, but it's okay this time.)
-A Firefox User
As stated in the title.
I respect the needs of websites that I views needs to make money but what a pain in my fucking ass.
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Even if it takes 9 yeares. If I had wanted your website to make noise I would have licked my finger and rubbed it across the monitor.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
... auto-play now, because I use Firefox with AdBlockPro, uBlock Origin, and NoScript.
It takes a long time for me to temporarily allow shit to load, but that's that.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
... are the advertising companies.
YOU, on the other hand, are only Google's product.
It seems google is more and more deciding whats good and whats bad, all they really should do is create a browser that does what the website asks it to do and not decide to do something else.
I wonder how CNN will figure out how to beat the block this time. I'm just glad whoever runs code and features for the "unrelated videos" overlay on CNN's site is using his or her power for not as evil as he could be.
OMG facts!
Does that mean that things come to life?
Ah, you had Javascript enabled. Let me show you how to disable it (no, your browser vendor[1] doesn't want you to know how).
[1] Mozilla, I'm looking (unfortunately!) at you.
Why wait until January? This feature is long overdue.
He's intentionally misinterpreting the "In January 2018" part of the title to mean "only during January 2018, and not outside of that month"
Is he ? really ?
Or maybe he's starting to get really distrustful of Google and ready that in February 2018, we'll get huge announcement that "google has decided to back-pedal on their 'no-autoplay' feature following important back-lash" (trans.: the advertisers were unhappy, and that might have jeopardized our shareholders plan to buy yet another Porsche).
Given that apart from a few android license (for the "full official google experience" beyond AOSP), and the recently introduced You Tube Red, and micro drop in the bucket of selling apps/movies/music/e-books on Google Play, they are mostly running on advertisers' money, that not entirely impossible~
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I never understood the concept of web sites just auto playing video. As if everyone wants to have that taking up bandwidth and page loading time. Sites like Cnet.com drive me crazy with this stuff and I don't even go to their site anymore. Give me a page with graphics and words and stop with the bloated page loads.
1. Leave site
2. Don't come back
That would get autoplay removed pretty quick. This is not like ads that they need to make money, it's just being a dick.
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Does this apply to sounds played with the web audio API or just embedded videos?
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
And when a Slashdot story's featured article is on such a site, watch the other users give you a hard time for not having Read The Featured Article.
That or site operators should ask themselves if a site really needs jQuery at all as opposed to a lighter-weight framework that runs on top of vanilla. In fact, if a site presents mostly static documents, it can present a view that doesn't require script at all. This is a lot easier now that IE 9 and earlier have reached their end of official support, and IE 11 requires far fewer heavyweight polyfills.
"But I have users who still use unsupported versions of Internet Explorer!" Count them again. If you still have them over the past 30 days, let them know through an occasional message in a lightbox that Microsoft has stopped fixing defects in their operating system, and latent forever-day vulnerabilities will put their computers at risk for intrusion.
And the icing on the cake: Once you stop using googleapis.com, Google can't data mine which sites are referring users to googleapis.com anymore.
Who decided to roll these features out so slowly and why?
I understand that cert validity changes are disruptive to a long tail of sites without good sysadmins have difficulty changing a cert, but these changes are not disruptive like that. They're just changes advertisers might not like.
This long rollout timeline seems more like pandering to the "ecosystem" like the way Android privacy controls were delayed by a year after iOS privacy controls (so they were only grudgingly implemented due to competitive pressure) and considerably watered down (apps know if you deny permission, and you're not allowed to lie to them). I'm not worried Google will sell the data they collect about me because they seem responsible about sane aggregation and preventing hacks, but I am worried Google is so sympathetic to others in the business of collecting data about me and selling it. It makes me wonder, in what other decisions is Chrome "balancing" the interests of web sites against the interests of users?
I'd rather use a browser that only considers the interests of users, and whining web sites can go fuck themselves. I don't think it's too much to ask.
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I'd rather have a whitlist for youtube, netflix etc and then an option to temporarily allow media on any other site I may browse, similar to pause on adblock, or maybe even a right-click on single video I want to see itself. Everything else does not play
It'll block all off site content by default, css, fonts, js, tracking gifs, everything that is on a different domain.
"Disable HTML5 Autoplay"
Some reviews have said it sometime doesn't work, however on the news sites I visit (I'm mostly thinking of CNET with its annoying and mostly completely unrelated videos) it works:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en
Meanwhile, Mozilla introduces shit nobody cares about and takes away shit everyone cares about. Go figure.
From February 2018, Firefox will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won't play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Convoluted logic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think I'll have to draw one of them there Venn diagrams.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This is a stupid decision but I guess they have those home audio listeners to consider.
Autoplaying videos have kept me well and truly away from american news sites since about 2010. Whoever thought that was ever OK is a fucking dickhead.
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