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Top Feedback Summary for September
Why, hello there, Insiders! As mentioned last month, we are moving these updates to once a month. Welcome to September’s Top Feedback update! We are talking about several items this month, including ...
sushraja
Microsoft
MicrosoftThe 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 ?
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.