Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years
by dragonwriter on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:42PM
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> What really should be done is getting rid of auto playing videos at the HTML spec level.
Or, let autoplay be a an explicit flag in the spec that is advisory as to publisher's intent, and establish a norm of user agents providing at least "big switch" configurability (Autoplay video on/off) and, ideally, optional per-site override of default on/off configuration for autoplay.
Or, let autoplay be a an explicit flag in the spec that is advisory as to publisher's intent, and establish a norm of user agents providing at least "big switch" configurability (Autoplay video on/off) and, ideally, optional per-site override of default on/off configuration for autoplay.