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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 514102
Owner: ----
Closed: Jun 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Do not allow audio/video to automatically start playing on webpages by default

Reported by zapahj...@gmail.com, Jun 14 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.86 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. as an example, go to http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/trump-senate-health-care-secret/index.html
2. notice how video and audio just start playing even though the viewer has not requested/approved the playing of it

What is the expected behavior?
Video and/or audio should NOT autoplay. Nothing should be allowed to play unless/until user presses Play on a specific item.

What went wrong?
1) The unexpected playing of audio when I do not want audio playing.

2) Sometimes the placement of the audio or video is not immediately apparent and I do not know where to go to disable it. So audio/video is playing and I have to drop everything to find out how to disable it.

3) If I have a bunch of tabs open, and I scroll through the tabs looking for something, when I hit a tab that has video/audio, it just starts playing even though I've already scrolled past it. 

4) autoplay consumes bandwidth that I do not need consumed because I have not requested that audio/video be played.

5) autoplay results in audio/video playing when there is no viewer. This contributes to noise pollution, wasted bandwidth, and in general is a bad practice.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 59.0.3071.86  Channel: stable
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Comment 2 by zapahj...@gmail.com, Jun 14 2017

I apologize, it appears this bug report (733302) may be a duplicate of  bug 514102 .

My initial read of  bug 514102  led me to believe it was specific to autoplaying plugins.
Mergedinto: 514102
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

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