But, with Chrome, you can customize some preferences by website, including permanently mute
autoplaying video ads, a move that should make your web - browsing experience much less interruptive.
With this in mind, Google Chrome is going to lay down some new ground rules for
autoplay videos in an upcoming build.
There's a brand new feature in Safari 11 on macOS High Sierra (and Sierra) that's designed to help you automatically block
autoplaying videos on the web.
Apple's Safari 11 browser will also allow you to easily stop
autoplay videos when it launches with macOS High Sierra on September 25.
You've probably noticed that the number
of autoplay videos in your own News Feed has swelled over the last year or so.
In addition to the rules Google has about muted videos and the considerations it makes concerning previous media engagement, Google will also
allow autoplay video through on sites users have added to their homepages.
And on Thursday, Chrome developers announced that you can now update your browser and choose to mute those
annoying autoplay videos on websites.
This includes updates to Safari,
including autoplay video blocking and «intelligent tracking prevention» to cut back at ad trackers; better Photos editing and organization; a faster new behind - the - scenes file system; a stronger updated graphics engine that supports VR development; and support for the Unity and Unreal gaming engines (which drew a round of applause from the developer audience).
Google currently offers an autoplay block in Chrome for Android, which attempts to stop
autoplay videos from eating up data and battery life.
Features
like autoplay videos, endless scrolling, and gamification encourage constant use, Harris has said.
Pinterest is taking its drive to earn more revenue from ads this year by
adding autoplay video ads to Home Feed.
Some sites slip through the cracks, but Safari now has a new options pane for manually
disabling autoplay videos and content entirely, regardless of whether or not it has sound.
Google's known for testing new features in its apps from time to time, and the latest experiment
introduces autoplay videos on YouTube.
Its called Cheekd, and Id categorize it as a place...
now autoplays video sound once turned on until you close the app.
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Twitter autoplay videos: read more
According to TechCrunch, the Microsoft - owned professional social network (slash blogging service for the world's least self - aware people) is introducing
autoplaying video advertisements.
If you want to start blocking unwanted audio from
autoplay videos today, try Avram Piltch's Silent Site Sound Blocker extension for Chrome.
Autoplay videos inherently tap into a human curiosity, hijacking your thought process and distracting you from whatever you actually came there to do.
Google's crusade to make the internet slightly less annoying continues in the next update for the Chrome browser
as autoplay videos with sound will be blocked by default.
It offers a great experience but with more people sharing videos on Facebook and Twitter, you're unknowingly using up lot more data on your iPhone or cellular if you've
autoplay videos enabled.
Chrome 64, however, arrived with the option to permanently mute specific annoying websites that
abuse autoplay videos with sound on by default.
Over the last few years, Facebook and Twitter have introduced a feature
which autoplay the videos automatically in your timeline.
Assuming none of those prerequisites have been met,
then autoplay videos will not be allowed to run and users will be able to enjoy their browsing sessions in piece.
As outlined on the Chromium Blog, Chrome 64 will tweak Google's autoplay rules and
restrict autoplay videos unless they play without sound or users have expressed an interest in that website's content in the past.
That feature will be going away, potentially paving the way for
more autoplay videos to run on devices where they were once banished entirely.
It also recommends that developers who do
use autoplay videos consider muting them by default and letting users choose when to unmute.
In the meantime, let us know in the comments
whether autoplay videos in YouTube is something you're looking forward to.
Furthermore, you can go into the YouTube app's settings to
turn autoplay videos off if you don't want the feature.
Google (googl) announced Thursday that Chrome 64, which will be made available to the general public at the start of next year, will only allow
autoplay videos when the audio is muted, or when the user has expressed interest in the content.
Some other key features include a lack
of autoplay videos, resulting in an overall streamlined browsing experience.
In the end, it sounds like Google is trying to find a better balance between
allowing autoplay videos to run and blocking them altogether.
A lot of the annoying features that come with surfing the web are going to be blocked on the latest version of Apple's Safari browser,
including autoplay videos.