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Top Feedback Summary for September
MissyQ It seems that Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website has become Provide an option to limit auto-play of video and audio when you open a website. The 75% drop in feedback around autoplaying media indicates that autoplay is not prevented. If the intent is to consider this Addressed at the end of the month, it would be good to change the wording to reflect this change of target.
Almost all news sites, including links from msn, autoplay. I stopped providing feedback because I thought that Planned meant preventing autoplay, not limiting it.
If the intent is to continue to address the feedback to prevent autoplay of media, maybe a new item could be added to the list.
Blocking autoplay was a valued feature of legacy Edge for me and for those around me. I hope the team will consider addressing the option to prevent autoplay as well as simply limiting it.
Microsoftsushraja Thank you for the clarifying question. On some sites, the audio plays along with the video and on some the audio is muted.
On most video streaming sites, both audio and video autoplay.
On news sites, it is more of a mix between audio muted or not. I assume that is a choice by the news site rather than a feature from Edge, but I have not tested it with other browsers to verify the assumption.
For me, the goal is to prevent all autoplay of video and audio unless I click to start it, or specifically enable autoplay for a site.
- sushrajaThe case where some sites are able to play audio through autoplay feel like a bug in limit's implementation - limit itself is supposed to block such playback. Do the sites where you experience this show up in
edge://media-engagement/ with the isHigh column reporting as yes.
Currently limit allows playback of media with no audio, because the hypothesis here is that users are complaining about the unexpected audio when they ask for auto play block. I would like to understand "the goal is to prevent all autoplay of video and audio unless I click to start it," a bit more
1. Would you expect sites like say https://giphy.com/ to not autoplay ? Explaining the question: That site primarily serves gifs/animated images but at times sites can use video elements with no audio to the same effect and I would like to understand your expectation of how you think the browser should handle this.
2. Would you expect that on a site like https://twitter.com/TwitterVideo, the user has to perform an additional action for the videos on each tweet to play ?- For me the issue is that the "Limit" option decides to enable autoplay on sites where I have manually played videos many times, and then I can't turn off autoplay on those sites anymore. I don't want Edge to decide which sites can and which can't autoplay. I want autoplay to be disabled unless I manually enable it.
