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Chrome will tackle annoying autoplay videos on websites

article published on 18 September, 2017

Google Chrome will soon tackle annoying autoplay videos on websites with new browser features coming next year. Autoplay videos can be extremely annoying when browsing the web. You load a webpage to read an article, and suddenly it is there in your face; an unrelated video that is playing full blast in your browser window. For laptop users, this is particularly frustrating. Chrome ... [ read the full article ]

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Bozobub
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_ 		18. September 2017 @ 10:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
SO, in other words, Chrome will still auto-allow YouTube and CNN to autoplay videos, as sites "you typically watch a lot of media content on"; sorry, that's almost worthless, unless you can turn that part of it off.
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digitalmounika
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_ 		18. September 2017 @ 11:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I agree chrome is my default browser. Autoplay videos can be extremely annoying when browsing the web.
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cart0181
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_ 		20. September 2017 @ 16:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How about giving the user total control of Autoplay videos in the browser?
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