Serve Videos Instead of GIFs

Re:Serve Videos Instead of GIFs by forgotmypw17 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @07:30PM (#23208079)

I use a chrome-based browser, but because it's missing some component, probably due to stupid DRM crap, most videos on most sites don't play for me. However, some of them do work. I don't feel like I'm missing much. But GIFs are certainly way more usable than video. I'm also writing web-based forum designed for backwards compatibility with older browsers, so GIFs will always be the default for me.

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Re:Serve Videos Instead of GIFs by wegs on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:37AM (#23211534)

Chrome has insane behavior where it will only autoplay videos from web sites Google trusts. If I put a video on my own web site and domain (muted, autoplay, etc.), it won't autoplay. If I put a gif up, it will.

Google claims this doesn't apply to videos with muted, but at least in my Chrome, it does.

Muted-by-default makes complete sense to me. I hate it when a web site makes noise. But no autoplay (even muted) is broken.

So is having Google act as the arbiter of which web sites get to autoplay (Google's Youtube) and which ones don't (my personal domain). That's a huge conflict-of-interest and hugely anti-competitive behavior right there. It crushes the little guy.

Disclaimer: Google claims this is based on some kind of objective metrics.

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Re:Serve Videos Instead of GIFs by Pxtl on Sunday May 17, 2020 @10:38AM (#23212314)

Considering the noisy ads on some websites I visit, I believe they're using some other metric.

But the metric is bad.

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