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I don't think it's a simple problem though. I want my videos on Youtube, Twitch and other similar sites to auto play, without having to click it manually every
by ehsankia 9y ago
I don't think it's a simple problem though. I want my videos on Youtube, Twitch and other similar sites to auto play, without having to click it manually every single time. We get into a whitelist/blacklist situation. The best way is to stick to one way, and allow users to fully unblock a site. Right now, it auto plays but you can fully blacklist a whole domain. I could also see it as everything is blocked and you whitelist Youtube. Maybe even automatically does it if you click play on a few videos.
- jessriedel 9y agoIt could be a permission (like sharing location) or maybe a permission that can only be requested after the user clicks play on a few videos. (That would prevent me having to select "no" to every trash website that requests permissions, like Chrome allowed with pushed content permissions in the past.
- Ajedi32 9y ago> everything is blocked and you whitelist Youtube. Maybe even automatically does it if you click play on a few videos That's basically what they're doing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJLg14Ogf-ekAFNymAJoU/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJ...
- fish_fan 9y agoIs there anyway to wipe the whitelist?
- fish_fan 9y agoIf only you could somehow enable users to make decisions for themselves we could solve this....
- sirclueless 9y agoNot really a solution. It works for repeat visits to sites users visit often, it doesn't really work at scale. Users want sane defaults; most of them will never change them. A world where sites are by default as malicious as users allow them to be is not a world where the internet is a friendly and powerful resource for everyone.
- fish_fan 9y agoMaking this a setting doesn't preclude sane defaults, like disabling autoplay everywhere except youtube.
- daveFNbuck 9y agoIt's even more complicated because I only want YouTube to autoplay when I open it in a foreground tab.
- callumlocke 9y agoThat is how YouTube behaves today. It doesn't play until you foreground the tab. I don't see why that would change.
- daveFNbuck 9y agoIt might if you implement a new system for how autoplay is decided. Not every browser avoids autoplaying YouTube in background tabs.