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Doesn't YouTube technically autoplay videos? Is this going to disable that?
by artursapek 9y ago
Doesn't YouTube technically autoplay videos? Is this going to disable that?
- danso 9y agoThe design document talks about applying a heuristic to determine which sites are expected by users to play video: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJLg14Ogf-ekAFNymAJoU/mobilebasic https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJ... > The Media Engagement Index (MEI) aims to provide a metric reflecting the engagement of a given user with regards to media playback on a given origin. The intent of this metric is to allow websites scoring high enough to be able to bypass the new unified autoplay policy, thus reducing the cost on the ecosystem.
- kuschku 9y agoSo, all existing pages get a bonus over new websites? That’s also suboptimal.
- danso 9y agoHasn't that been the case since Google's, aka BackRub's, very birth?
- ravenstine 9y agoUgh, that sounds dreadful. Doesn't this prevent anyone besides YouTube and a handful of other sites from establishing themselves as video hosting sites? Besides that, adding another hard-to-predict layer to the web is just... bleh. We shouldn't need heuristics to make the web a nice place to be. Boycotts on website should start becoming a regular thing. I simply don't return to websites that pull shenanigans like autoplaying videos on scroll. If I must, I use archive.is so that crap gets stripped out and I don't give them a genuine hit.
- Dylan16807 9y agoIt kicks in once the user visits a site 5 times. Nothing that really favors big sites. I have no idea what to do about the hundreds of gotchas around html/css/javascript.
- cyphar 9y agoI guess it'll be handled the same way "intrusive advertising" is going to be handled. That is, Google is always going to be acceptable and it's only non-Google services that will be blocked.