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> Chrome does this by learning your preferences... This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience. In my experience, "learning" and
by sanxiyn 9y ago
> Chrome does this by learning your preferences... This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience.
In my experience, "learning" and "predictable" do not go together.
- zamalek 9y agoAgreed, it should just be a permission like any other. If I'm on a website where I expect to play media I can remember the preference. They probably don't want to break websites (as autoplay has no permissions model), but breaking the most annoying feature on the web right now is a good thing.
- bastawhiz 9y agoThis has already been possible. You can disable sound for all websites in chrome://settings/content/sound Then, you can enable sound manually for each site in the site settings panel.
- chipperyman573 9y agoWow, I never knew this! I will definitely be doing it now. Does anyone happen to know if this will overwrite this new learning setting?
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- always_good 9y agoReminds me of fuzzy matching systems like Alfred that will try to learn which key combos you use to launch each app instead of trying to offer you predictability. But "fi<enter>" never launches Firefox anymore because of that one time you accidentally launched Finder instead. And since you keep accidentally launching Finder that way, it never learns that you want Firefox. So you try "f<enter>" but you accidentally launch Flux. And because you keep forgetting it thinks "f" = Flux, it always launches Flux. So you have to use "fir<enter>" to launch Firefox. But "fire<enter>" somehow launches Firewatch, a game you forgot you had installed on your laptop. It's the most obnoxious system ever where each additional keystroke reorders the entire fuzzy result list in the name of "learning." It really is the opposite of predictable.
- rubatuga 9y agoUnfortunately, macOS does the exact same thing. I'm typing "ph" to "pho", and suddently it matches "photo booth" instead of "photoshop". Absolutely unpredictable...
- madeofpalk 9y agoFucking photo booth. Perplexed me that the system always things I want that over Photoshop or Photos. This is the part where Apple apologists get the whole “Siri/Spotlight is bad because they do everything locally and they respect your privacy” thing wrong. Nothing about this problem needs to be done “in the cloud” - their local algos need work.
- stringlytyped 9y agoYes! Spotlight does the exact same thing. Drives me crazy.
- 07d046 9y agoAnd then there's Chrome, where you can start typing something in the URL bar, and it comes up with some results immediately, but in the milliseconds before you select a result it changes to something "better" so you go to the page instead. Infuriating.
- lugg 9y agoTry to get it to learn yc = news.ycombinator.com took a fair amount of jimmying to get it to learn it after a browser user switch.
- asmosoinio 9y agoI have pretty much the opposite anecdote: to me the Chrome URL bar is a magic component that finds any of the tickets I've lately worked on (from three different ticketing systems) with typing a few words/characters, knows that "n" is HN etc, "g" takes me to gmail.com etc. And all without any effort to manually teach it. Google Spreadsheets is where it often fails to work perfectly - hard to get it to take me to the spreadsheets homepage if I don't remember exactly which sheet I want to open.
- Ajedi32 9y agoIn Chrome I can type Ctrl+L You <TAB> <Search Query> <Enter> to search YouTube. Chrome figured this out on its own by learning that when I type "You" I usually mean "YouTube". Ever since then that behavior has been very predictable for me. Why would Chrome learning what sites I usually play video on be any different?