The biggest annoyance I have with this, besides that they whitelist any sites (YouTube), is that it doesn’t follow a standard, and instead is Google pushing som

The biggest annoyance I have with this, besides that they whitelist any sites (YouTube), is that it doesn’t follow a standard, and instead is Google pushing something that breaks a lot of standards compliant things. If they built it into the browser in a way like “this thing wants to play audio, allow,” it would be a much better experience and most likely wouldn’t break that much if done properly. In essence they seem to have went with the half baked approach, without considering the consequences of doing so, instead of treating it like a plug-in.