Media autoplay blocking does not work properly
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To do:
- Go to vivaldi://settings/privacy/
- Set media autoplay to be blocked (screenshot https://www.upload.ee/image/14894430/____________.PNG )
- Then restart V.
After all
- Go to youtube
- Click RMB on any video -> open in backg. tab
- Go to that tab
- Video is playing (it should NOT!)
- Press F5
- Video is NOT playing (that's what we needed)
One more to check:
- Go to youtube
- Click RMB on any video -> open in backg. tab
- Restart V
- Go to that new tab with video
- Video is NOT playing (that's what we needed)
One more to check:
- Go to youtube
- Click LMB on any video
- Video is playing (it should NOT!)
- Press F5
- Video is NOT playing (that's what we needed)
Win 10, any latest release or snapshot.
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@hideli is this bug: VB-95043 "Media autoplay blocking does not work properly" - Confirmed
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@hideli AutoplayStopper is solution
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@helixo Yes, with care, as some extensions with such feature can cause videos not starting at all.
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@DoctorG Thanks for answer.
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@helixo
Don't think so. Internal feature must work properly. What for should it exist else? -
@hideli said in Media autoplay blocking does not work properly:
@helixo
Don't think so. Internal feature must work properly. What for should it exist else?I agree, make it work or remove it altogether until it works, having a non working feature that forces me to use an extension is adding injury to insult.
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It doesn't work on NFL.com either. FWIW though, Edge's autoplay blocker doesn't work there either. Firefox does.
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@DoctorG said in Media autoplay blocking does not work properly:
@hideli is this bug: VB-95043 "Media autoplay blocking does not work properly" - Confirmed
It actually doesn't work on most sites. Isn't this a feature introduced in Chromium itself? I believe Vivaldi should try to tackle this problem. Perhaps Vivaldi's adblocker can force videos not to autoplay.
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@RasheedHolland said in Media autoplay blocking does not work properly:
Vivaldi should try to tackle this problem
Yes, they should.
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@DoctorG said in Media autoplay blocking does not work properly:
@RasheedHolland said in Media autoplay blocking does not work properly:
Vivaldi should try to tackle this problem
Yes, they should.
To clarify, I meant that if it's a standard Chromium feature, you shouldn't count on it to be fixed. So Vivaldi should implement it themselves. Even extensions can't block autoplay on many sites.
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@RasheedHolland The feature is implemented but has a bug in Vivaldi.
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@DoctorG said in Media autoplay blocking does not work properly:
@RasheedHolland The feature is implemented but has a bug in Vivaldi.
Are you saying that the autoplay function is not present in Edge, Opera and Brave? I assumed it was a standard feature in Chromium based browsers. Just like you can also control other stuff per site, like access to mic and webcam for example.
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@RasheedHolland Allow/Block Autoplay feature is existent but broken on Vivaldi.
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@DoctorG said in Media autoplay blocking does not work properly:
@RasheedHolland Allow/Block Autoplay feature is existent but broken on Vivaldi.
Yes, but that was not my question. My question is if this ''block autoplay video'' feature is also present in other Chromium based browsers, and if so, do they correctly block autoplay? I don't have crappy browsers like Chrome, Brave and Opera installed, so that's why I can't check it out myself. I do have an old version of Edge (old Chromium), but this didn't have an autblock feature.
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@RasheedHolland
Another chrome-based browsers don't have this feature. -
@hideli Edge does.
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@fred8615
But that is not common chrome function. -
@hideli You said this:
Another chrome-based browsers don't have this feature.
Even if it's not "common," Edge still has it. So that statement is incorrect.
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I believe Vivaldi (and probably Edge/Brave as well) just uses Chrome/Chromium's built-in autoplay blocking which has existed for a long time but never been actually exposed as a setting, just a flag.
In Vivaldi the internal Chromium setting is available here:
chrome://settings/content/autoplay
However this settings page is not actually available in either Chromium nor Chrome."The Autoplay Policy launched in Chrome 66 for audio and video elements and is effectively blocking roughly half of unwanted media autoplays in Chrome."
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/However, when you read the document, it's clearly more complicated than just "block everything, everywhere". It depends on your "Media Engagement Index", which can be seen here:
vivaldi://media-engagement
The difference is that Vivaldi (+Edge, Brave) allow us to explicitly set it. Chrome does not. It's possible Edge's implementation is slightly different, as they tend to take Chromium code and implement their own feature, but they also have the developer resources to do so...
Firefox has its own implementation of course, no idea how it works or how well.