That's an argument for disabling large GIF autoplay or tying it to the autoplay setting, not for removing the autoplay setting entirely! Though I guess in the

That's an argument for disabling large GIF autoplay or tying it to the autoplay setting, not for removing the autoplay setting entirely! Though I guess in the extreme case a webpage could have a huge grid of 1x1px divs that change color in a requestAnimationFrame callback based on data retrieved over XHR. So I can kinda see their point of view. It still seems a bit too far in the other direction if you ask me though. ... But enough grumbling. I wanted to point out the following documents for more context: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/09/unified-autoplay.html https://blog.chromium.org/2017/09/unified-autoplay.html (Somewhat wordsmithed...) https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/audio-video/autoplay https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/audio-video/auto... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH7qZatVnTXsBGvQc_53R97Z0xqm6zRblKg3eVmNp30/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH7qZatVnTXsBGvQc_53R97Z...