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There are a couple Chromium bugs filed about this: https://crbug.com/107923 https://crbug.com/107923 and https://crbug.com/514102 https://crbug.com/514102 Over

by fjarlq 10y ago

There are a couple Chromium bugs filed about this: https://crbug.com/107923 https://crbug.com/107923 and https://crbug.com/514102 https://crbug.com/514102 Overriding autoplay can lead to a confusing user experience -- play/pause synchronization issue with embedded YouTube videos: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1217438 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1217438 The Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension is often suggested for Chrome, and it has 112,213 users, but it's far from perfect: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...

Eridrus 10y ago
The extension has issues, mostly around embedded YouTube videos, but it causes far fewer issues than uBlock, so I'd recommend ever who gets annoyed by this to try it out.
hub_ 10y ago
But then Chrome and Youtube come from the same company. Maybe they should coordinate.
- vurpo 10y ago
  How could they? They can't just disable autoplay but make an exception for YouTube, that would be wrong in so many ways. You can't make that into a web standard, so it would promote browser fragmentation, for example. So how about a whitelist/blacklist? Well, since users can't even agree among themselves on which websites belong on which side of the fence, such a list would quickly become a nightmare to maintain, still be based on someone's personal bias, and would still leave small websites at a disadvantage. Pretty much the only thing that would work is a permissions question to the user, like there is currently for e.g. location access. "Do you want to allow videosite.example.com to automatically play video content? \Allow, \Allow and remember, \*Deny"