Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web
by degenerate on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:53PM
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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
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That's not actually what's going on. You can find an explanation here: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/web-audio-...
Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web
by Ajedi32 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:08AM
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There's no flag; it's on by default. Do you have a link to an article talking about the autoplay policy being reverted?
Re:Going beyond images with basic video for the web
by degenerate on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:32AM
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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.