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Does this include animated gif? If yes: then it's annoying. If no: annoying ads turn into animated gifs.

• sp332 9y ago
  If the video does not have an audio track, it seems that it will be allowed. However, as you note, animated gifs are still pretty annoying and I think it would be nice if they were click-to-play as well.
  • jernoble 9y ago
    You can now change this setting either globally, or on a per-website basis in Safari Technology Preview 32: https://webkit.org/blog/7627/safari-technology-preview-32/ https://webkit.org/blog/7627/safari-technology-preview-32/ The options are: "Allow all Auto Play", "Stop Media with Sound" (the default), and "Never Auto Play". Site authors following the best practices section in the WebKit.org blog should provide a play button for video-backed-gifs when "Never Auto Play" causes automatic playback to block.
  • panopticon 9y ago
    > However, as you note, animated gifs are still pretty annoying I think that comment actually says disabling autoplay on animated gifs would be annoying.
    • laythea 9y ago
      I think the comment was saying 2 things: its bad because we loose GIF auto play facility and its bad because we will still have ads via GIFs. So basically, its a no win move for the consumer. However, my response would be to that would be: yes its bad if so, and if not, users can hopefully "throttle" its impact on our experience. IE. I would expect that the browser controls the parameters in which the GIF is "played" to maximize performance, or to suit user preference. E.g. Max number of frames, GIF size, looping etc