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sushraja 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.
sushraja Thank you for the additional clarifying questions.
Let me start with "prevent auto-play of video and audio" in the description. It is not clear to me how this would be interpreted to mean that video is allowed as long as it does not have audio.For your specific questions. In both cases, I would like to have a setting that will prevent auto-play of video and audio, unless I change the setting in the site permissions.
In the early days of the new Edge, Block was an option in addition to Limit. It is still available using a flag, but does not seem to behave differently from Limit. Then I could use Site Permissions -> Media Autoplay to add any site I did not want this to apply to in the Allow section.
It is a personal preference, but in the absence of this site permission Allow exception, I would want site 1 and site 2 from your message to prevent autoplay video and audio unless I click on the video/audio item. But an Allow list would let the user make the choice.
Please let me know if I can clarify further.
- There is a BLOCK option however it is experimental and needs to be enabled via the edge://flags area and look for "Show block option in autoplay settings". This then adds the BLOCK option to the Media Autoplay setting however I still have some web site playing unwanted videos so I suspect it is still being worked on.
