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Disable video auto play
Edge had a great feature that let me disable all autoplaying videos and I could whitelist certain sites.
Chrome works differently and tries to guess based on playing with audio or not. I want m...
Absolutely imperative to put this under user control, IMHO.
NEITHER audio nor video should NOT play unless *I* *explicitly* say so.
I don't care if audio is MP3 or ogg or whatever format...it is all noise!
I don't care if video is MP4 or animated GIF or whatever...it is all unwanted distraction!
I REALLY don't care if this breaks the business model of sites.
My eyes/ears. My circumstances...
I don't care if CNN won't like me :-)
Personal preference: say "no autoplay, ever" to 100% of sites but I guess that others would like to whitelist some sites.
NEITHER audio nor video should NOT play unless *I* *explicitly* say so.
I don't care if audio is MP3 or ogg or whatever format...it is all noise!
I don't care if video is MP4 or animated GIF or whatever...it is all unwanted distraction!
I REALLY don't care if this breaks the business model of sites.
My eyes/ears. My circumstances...
I don't care if CNN won't like me :-)
Personal preference: say "no autoplay, ever" to 100% of sites but I guess that others would like to whitelist some sites.
Install Chrome extensions: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/silent-site-sound-blocker/hkbdhiphllimobjnfeeekaogfibmdgfe and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ejddcgojdblidajhngkogefpkknnebdh . Works every time (almost). Don't forget https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm.
- Thank you for this, media auto playing is the most annoying thing. AutoplayStopper seems to do the job.
- Thanks. I will try these.
They can't be as good as a proper user-oriented facility built into the browser, though.
I guess that Microsoft has an opportunity here: they have been trumpeting about how much Google 'spyware' they have taken away from Chrome. Now they have a chance to follow up on this by putting some some good USER-oriented features.
My guess is that they will just replace Google 'spyware' services with Microsoft 'spyware' services instead. One can hope and dream, however.Push for web development is driven largely by advertising and goods & services sale revenue. I don't think any large browser developers will incorporate full adds blocking features. Instead they try to soften user experience by more intelligent algorithms for ads show including video and audio ads.
