Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ...
by tracker1 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:16AM
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Is Chrome really that far off from IE on market share when the MS anti-trust talk started?
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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ...
by criddell on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:03AM
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Chrome could have 100% market share and it wouldn't necessarily be a problem. If I understand it correctly, Google would have to abuse their market position in some way.
Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ...
by bzbarsky on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:58AM
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Last I checked, Chrome blocks autoplay of videos with sound on websites. Except for YouTube, where they allow it.
If they were a monopoly, that would seem like a pretty clear abuse of market position.
Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ...
by merb on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:00PM
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that's not enterily true. on dailymotion videos also start with sound while the video is autoplayed.
As far as I know it has more todo with the visibility/size of the video.
Here is the ruling (I've written the above before: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...)
Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ...
by bzbarsky on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:16PM
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Various other sites can get added to the whitelist if their videos are big enough and the user plays them often enough. But YouTube starts out on the whitelist. It's possible that dailymotion does too. The BBC, doesn't seem to be on the whitelist, though.