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Rohit Yadav
Bronze Contributor
May 31, 2019
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Media Autoplay

Hi there, Would Media Autoplay be introduced in the Edge Chromium? Earlier it was available as a Flag, but now the Flag also isn't available... Thanks!
  • DarrenMH's avatar
    DarrenMH
    Jun 05, 2019

    Thanks Rohit Yadav !

     

    I'm not sure why the flag has been removed. I did find there is a bug with possible issues with Media Autoplay, thus could be related why the flag is not there today.

     

    As for the future of Media Autoplay, we've captured your feedback and ask.

     

    Thanks!

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smlombardi
Copper Contributor
Jul 24, 2019

Rohit Yadav There's a key, but it seems to have no effect on sites I'd like to see blocked.  Not sure what is meant by "Most popular websites ", but I'd like to be able to block autoplay on a web site like i can in Safari, perhaps in the "padlock" menu.

 

Limit Media Autoplay

Algorithmically limits certain websites from playing media automatically. Most popular websites will remain unaffected. – Mac, Windows

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    pneenkoalabear
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 29, 2019
    I preferred the older flag. That one didn't rely on an algorithm and was quite nice
    • ms4132's avatar
      ms4132
      Iron Contributor
      Aug 17, 2019

      In Canary 78.0.249.0 the Limit Media Autoplay flag has disappeared for me. I hope that this is an indication that it will move to a standard feature as in Edge Legacy. I am also hopeful that the feature will be implemented as Block Media Autoplay instead. The Limit Media Autoplay flag did not seem to stop much in the way of autoplaying video.

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        ms4132
        Iron Contributor
        Aug 17, 2019

        And while I am hoping, I am hopeful that whatever the final solution is it will provide a way to stop the Netflix background preview autoplay and any others like it.

    • Rohit Yadav's avatar
      Rohit Yadav
      Bronze Contributor
      Jul 29, 2019

      pneenkoalabear Yea, the flag was better, but seems they have removed that from the Chromium codebase itself...

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        pneenkoalabear
        Iron Contributor
        Jul 30, 2019
        but it can be ported, right? If it's like GitHub, you can view the history
  • Rohit Yadav's avatar
    Rohit Yadav
    Bronze Contributor
    Jul 25, 2019

    smlombardi you're correct. Not sure how the algorithm works, but I guess earlier even the flag wasn't available. Now that the flag is available, they must be working on it, and we should expect more clarity on this...

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