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description for autoplay blocking in settings page
"Allow" and "Limit" both have the same description. "Block" has a different one.
"Limit" and "Allow" should have distinct descriptions.
right now the user can't know the difference between what "Allow" and "Limit" does in action.
Official Explanation:
You can choose from two options which restrict whether video and audio can play automatically. If you choose Limit, media will autoplay based on how you’ve used media on that site in the past. If you choose Block, all sites will be blocked from playing media automatically.
source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-September-24/m-p/873008
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HotCakeX, what happened to block for media autoplay? Can anyone from Microsoft explain why block has gone away as the choices are now allow and limit. I'd love to see block be there as I'd set and recommend that be set for people. It is so annoying to land on a page and have a video auto-start.
Jeffrey Allen wrote:HotCakeX, what happened to block for media autoplay? Can anyone from Microsoft explain why block has gone away as the choices are now allow and limit. I'd love to see block be there as I'd set and recommend that be set for people. It is so annoying to land on a page and have a video auto-start.
Hi, it's not gone, it's just behind a flag.
this happened 3 or 4 months ago..
you can bring it back by going to: edge://flags/
and enable this flag:
Show block option in autoplay settings
If enabled, block will appear as an option in media autoplay settings. – Mac, Windows
HotCakeX, thanks I had it before and it went away. I did just test on two pages and the videos are still auto playing even with block chosen.
Adding Elliot Kirk, josh_bodner, and David Rubino to this conversation as I'm curious to know why block vanished?!
Official Explanation:
You can choose from two options which restrict whether video and audio can play automatically. If you choose Limit, media will autoplay based on how you’ve used media on that site in the past. If you choose Block, all sites will be blocked from playing media automatically.
source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-September-24/m-p/873008- Yes it's currently only available on Canary and only for a select group. because of A/B testing..
Hi HotCakeX, thank you for the feedback. I have reached out to the team that owns this and have begun the conversation. On one hand, the current version of Microsoft Edge doesn't provide help strings, and we haven't heard much negative feedback, but on the other, it makes it much more clear what the different options do. Thank you again for the suggestion.
- Thank you!
