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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by bhhaskin on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:18PM (#20879952)
For anyone who is asking why sites are pushing auto playing videos, this is why. Google is actively pushing video to "increase engagement". All of those "news" sites have a Google Ads rep that tells them increase engagement equals more ad revenue, so they maximize it to the hilt. It becomes the overriding force UX be damned.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by sp332 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:36PM (#20880110)
This was fraud perpetrated by Facebook. https://twitter.com/ConroyForReal/status/1052403439613829120 Not saying Google didn't do it too, but I know for sure Facebook was lying.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by bhhaskin on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:42PM (#20880158)
Oh no doubt.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by magashna on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:47PM (#20880199)
Nothing repels my engagement more than a video on a news site, following my scrolling while I'm reading.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by Ajedi32 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:11PM (#20880428)
Aren't auto playing videos blocked by default in Chrome now? https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by degenerate on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:53PM (#20880785)
No. The Autoplay chrome flag was added but then removed/scrapped sometime in early 2019. You can only stop autoplay videos by using extensions now. The only extension that is actively maintained (and actually works) is called "AutoplayStopper" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ej...
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by jmedley on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:08PM (#20888731)
That's not actually what's going on. You can find an explanation here: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/web-audio-...
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by Ajedi32 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:08AM (#20886266)
There's no flag; it's on by default. Do you have a link to an article talking about the autoplay policy being reverted?
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by degenerate on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:32AM (#20887717)
No, I am speaking by my own use of Chrome only. Go to YouTube or any large news site, and the videos still autoplay, regardless of whatever chrome settings/flags are now supposedly default.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by vanadium on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:48PM (#20881759)
No, but I can confirm that in FF69 it's finally blocking those banal CNN videos that seem to accompany every. single. article.
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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by flanbiscuit on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:30PM (#20882422)
They've switched to checking an "mei" score to see if a video is allowed to autoplay on a site:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

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Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web by katsura on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:58PM (#20880823)
It is blocked only if the video has sound. Muted videos can be played automatically.
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