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Do not allow audio/video to automatically start playing on webpages by default
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zapahj...@gmail.com,
Jun 14 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: 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 OS Version: Flash Version:
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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.
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Jun 14 2017
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