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It appears Microsoft is considering blocking auto-playing video from websites by default. The company has added a new flag to the Edge Canary browser called “Autoplay Limit Default Setting.” This would allow Microsoft to set media autoplay by default to Limit. When set to Limit, media won’t be autoplayed on sites that you’ve visited and interacted with sometime back. Currently, in the Edge browser, Autoplay settings are set to Allow by default, meaning media will automatically play with sound. The flag is not enabled by default, but it seems likely that Microsoft plans to test the feature with some Edge users to see if it causes serious issues before considering […]

Facebook has updated their mobile app and changed the way videos automatically play on your feed. Now these videos auto-play with sound. If you’re somewhere quiet, perhaps in a meeting or maybe a movie, you may not want to open up the app, unless you’re ok with anyone near you hearing whatever video you come across while scrolling. But there are a few ways to avoid this new feature in the app. The change in the app has slowly been rolling out for months but recently got around to a bunch of users who received popup alerts in the app about the it. The alert reads: “Now It’s Easier to […]

Auto-playing videos are never a good ideas. Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are all guilty of auto-playing videos but Twitter and Instagram still mute them while they play. Facebook on the other hand plays videos with sound by default and you have to turn it off. This is annoying behavior but given these are all social apps, it’s to be expected. A social app pushes content onto the user and this is just one more way to do it. For Google to opt a similar strategy is what’s concerning. The Google Search app on Android, and even Google on your desktops is gearing up to auto-play videos in search results. For […]

A few years ago, Netflix decided that we should no longer browse in silence for things to watch, so the company introduced “video previews” that automatically play a trailer—with sound—if you linger on a title for more than a few seconds. The approach has proven wildly unpopular, at least among folks with loud internet megaphones. A complaint on Twitter last year by the film director Rian Johnson went viral, and anguished articles by Thrillist, Kotaku, and TidBits followed. Reddit users routinely ask one another if they can disable Netflix’s auto-playing video previews (not possible, except though an extension for desktop web browsers), and there’s even a Twitter account dedicated to […]