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> My bet is that they did this to not break Youtube. Which is fine to me. If I go to a website specifically for videos, I want it to autoplay, having to press

> My bet is that they did this to not break Youtube. Which is fine to me. If I go to a website specifically for videos, I want it to autoplay, having to press play is a pointless action. If I go to a website to read articles, I do not want autoplay, and I definitely don't want the video to even follow me around as a tiny minimized window when I scroll down and yes I will close the tab or press back pretty quick if that happens (as I come to the realization the effort to read this article is not worth the gain and realize that I probably was procrastinating anyway to end up on that article in the first place so should do something more productive). If it's interesting enough I will play the video myself, preferably with full control of its time slider myself and preferably without it auto-starting an unrelated different video after this one was done.

digi_owl 9y ago
I may go there to view a video, but that does not mean i want it to start playing the moment the page starts loading.
- Aardwolf 9y ago
  Then the preference differs per person. Optimal for me would be if anyone can create a personal whitelist of websites that may autoplay :) EDIT: or "learn" I guess, let's see how long it takes to learn my simple whitelist and how often it will randomly decide to change :p
- cdancette 9y ago
  that's why it's learning from your actions
  - maskros 9y ago
    Not the same thing, if going by the article. If I eventually play all the videos, at my own leasure, it will still learn that I play the videos and start playing immediately when the page loads.
rtpg 9y ago
That's the rub. How do you differentiate between the articles thing and the video thing?
- cm2187 9y ago
  You get a convenient way to enable auto play on that website only.
  - mariusmg 9y ago
    That would mean everyone will have to "whitelist" Youtube and allow playback after updating Chrome. No way this "option" gets the stamp of approval from Google management.
  - cornholio 9y ago
    That's exactly what they did, but they pre-populated the whitelist with 1000 entries of video streaming sites. If you want to add your own, simply press play in the respective site.
jrochkind1 9y ago
> and I definitely don't want the video to even follow me around as a tiny minimized window Why the hell did this become a standard pattern on news sites anyway? It's the WORST.

digi_owl 9y ago

I may go there to view a video, but that does not mean i want it to start playing the moment the page starts loading.

Aardwolf 9y ago
Then the preference differs per person. Optimal for me would be if anyone can create a personal whitelist of websites that may autoplay :) EDIT: or "learn" I guess, let's see how long it takes to learn my simple whitelist and how often it will randomly decide to change :p
cdancette 9y ago
that's why it's learning from your actions
- maskros 9y ago
  Not the same thing, if going by the article. If I eventually play all the videos, at my own leasure, it will still learn that I play the videos and start playing immediately when the page loads.

rtpg 9y ago

That's the rub. How do you differentiate between the articles thing and the video thing?

cm2187 9y ago
You get a convenient way to enable auto play on that website only.
- mariusmg 9y ago
  That would mean everyone will have to "whitelist" Youtube and allow playback after updating Chrome. No way this "option" gets the stamp of approval from Google management.
- cornholio 9y ago
  That's exactly what they did, but they pre-populated the whitelist with 1000 entries of video streaming sites. If you want to add your own, simply press play in the respective site.

jrochkind1 9y ago

> and I definitely don't want the video to even follow me around as a tiny minimized window Why the hell did this become a standard pattern on news sites anyway? It's the WORST.