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I would be happy if i got 2mb GIFs these days. You click on something that ends with gif or mp4 and you get half a megabyte of tracking javascript instead of th
by junaru 6y ago
I would be happy if i got 2mb GIFs these days. You click on something that ends with gif or mp4 and you get half a megabyte of tracking javascript instead of the file you expected.
- m463 6y agoexactly. gif is a choice about the limitations of what can happen. A gif will play and repeat with NO SOUND POSSIBLE.
- nikanj 6y agoImagine a browser prompt for ”This site would like to play audio” alá ”This site would like to send you notifications” Too bad that would break Youtube, so Chrome will never deliver it
- anchpop 6y agoUsers having to click a prompt once to turn on audio would break youtube?
- rvnx 6y agoChrome is doing it on mobile to decide whether media should autoplay, except YouTube gets whitelisted by the heuristic (which they tuned for YouTube obviously)
- kadoban 6y agoIf the browser has a memory per-site it doesn't break youtube. It could easily be made to work.
- ken 6y agoThat sounds awesome. Maybe not as a 'prompt' (those are awful, and don't scale), but some mechanism for requiring the user to confirm their intent to allow it. Web browsers are the first real application sandbox that most people have experience with. It's a really good one. There's this rectangle on the screen, and there's a label at the top that says who delivered the content, and everything it can do happens inside that rectangle. Any way it wants to escape that box ought to require my approval.
- m463 6y agoWhat's weird is that the outlook web interface can generate sounds under firefox. I think I have everything turned off but meeting notifications (somehow) make sound.
- DangitBobby 6y agoFirefox mutes audio from videos by default. YouTube also functions perfectly in Firefox.