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Restricting framerate will still download the 100mb GIF. Also, so many parts of websites use gifs and canvas. If you start blocking those, you'll be hiding loa

Restricting framerate will still download the 100mb GIF. Also, so many parts of websites use gifs and canvas. If you start blocking those, you'll be hiding loading spinners, menus and more. You're adding ton and ton of complexity and going at war after something pretty silly. If a website is abusive and does shitty things, just don't use the website. After some point, it's no longer the browsers job to babysit the web. I completely agreed with autoplaying audio, but blocking video is just not worth it.

paulryanrogers 6y ago
I'd like the option to abort downloading once a gif reaches the first full frame or 1MB. Whichever comes first. Looks like Chrome will never be that browser. Seriously gif is only used because it's autoplay predates widespread abuse of autoplay generally. Now is the time to put an end to it, at least as an option.
baybal2 6y ago
> If a website is abusive and does shitty things, just don't use the website. What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by some omnipresent, and hard to avoid 3rd party ad net? > After some point, it's no longer the browsers job to babysit the web. I completely agreed with autoplaying audio, but blocking video is just not worth it. Video is by far the heaviest piece of media out there. There is no practical means to reduce its loading time, especially on mobile. It simply cannot be considered an ordinary piece of page content. Lastly, people are sick and tired of video ads, and, particularly, obscene, bombastic, and blinking like no tomorrow ones.
- esperent 6y ago
  > What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by some omnipresent, and hard to avoid 3rd party ad net? Use an ad blocker. Since mobile chrome doesn't allow adblocking, this means you will have to choose one of the many other mobile browsers that do.
  - baybal2 6y ago
    This is not a duty of adblocker. You don't have it to be an ad to bust your data package.
dwaltrip 6y ago
Canvas and gifs could be an opt-in feature on a per-website basis, just like notifications and webcam access.
- ehsankia 6y ago
  With that logic, soon every single feature in the browser will have a pop up saying "Do you want to allow losing <img>?", "Do you want to allow use of "cursor css style?", etc.
toastal 6y ago
SVG is smaller in a vast majority of those cases and looks better to boot
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  SVG can have non svg images inside of it. SVG has autoplaying animation possibilities. SVG has JavaScript if you are putting it directly into the body of the page. You can also put anything into SVG with the foreign object element, so also videos. So yes if someone stopped me abusing the users with my autoplaying videos I might decide to abuse them with SVG before these other options.
  - toastal 6y ago
    I didn't think about that. That's depressing.

paulryanrogers 6y ago

I'd like the option to abort downloading once a gif reaches the first full frame or 1MB. Whichever comes first. Looks like Chrome will never be that browser. Seriously gif is only used because it's autoplay predates widespread abuse of autoplay generally. Now is the time to put an end to it, at least as an option.

baybal2 6y ago

> If a website is abusive and does shitty things, just don't use the website. What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by some omnipresent, and hard to avoid 3rd party ad net? > After some point, it's no longer the browsers job to babysit the web. I completely agreed with autoplaying audio, but blocking video is just not worth it. Video is by far the heaviest piece of media out there. There is no practical means to reduce its loading time, especially on mobile. It simply cannot be considered an ordinary piece of page content. Lastly, people are sick and tired of video ads, and, particularly, obscene, bombastic, and blinking like no tomorrow ones.

esperent 6y ago
> What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by some omnipresent, and hard to avoid 3rd party ad net? Use an ad blocker. Since mobile chrome doesn't allow adblocking, this means you will have to choose one of the many other mobile browsers that do.
- baybal2 6y ago
  This is not a duty of adblocker. You don't have it to be an ad to bust your data package.

dwaltrip 6y ago

Canvas and gifs could be an opt-in feature on a per-website basis, just like notifications and webcam access.

ehsankia 6y ago
With that logic, soon every single feature in the browser will have a pop up saying "Do you want to allow losing <img>?", "Do you want to allow use of "cursor css style?", etc.

toastal 6y ago

SVG is smaller in a vast majority of those cases and looks better to boot

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
SVG can have non svg images inside of it. SVG has autoplaying animation possibilities. SVG has JavaScript if you are putting it directly into the body of the page. You can also put anything into SVG with the foreign object element, so also videos. So yes if someone stopped me abusing the users with my autoplaying videos I might decide to abuse them with SVG before these other options.
- toastal 6y ago
  I didn't think about that. That's depressing.