Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by andybak on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:26PM (#15258396)

> It's a shame that browsers increasingly have to actively defend against website behavior,

You make this sound like a new trend but it was always thus.

Didn't you live through the 90s before pop-up blockers were built in to browsers? Not to mentionvarious abusive plugins, attempts to trick you into installing toolbars, the hell that was RealPlayer, rewriting your history to prevent 'back', etc etc.

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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by outsidetheparty on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:46PM (#15258574)

ah phooey just let me have my totally unwarranted nostalgia for imaginary better days gone by

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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by 0xfeba on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:36PM (#15259064)

I wish we lived in a place more like the America of yesteryear that only exists in the brains of us Republicans.

- Ned Flanders

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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by nix0n on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:47PM (#15259140)

You're right, but the arms race has marched on.

HTML5 has increased the amount of work I have to do, I miss the days when Flashblock was all I needed.

(I would love to be wrong about this, please show me an HTML5 blocker with a site-based whitelist.)

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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by andybak on Saturday September 16, 2017 @05:39AM (#15263804)

Not quite clear on what a "HTML5" blocker is. I'm guessing you don't literally mean "block HTML5"...

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