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See: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay tl;dr: The browser attempts to learn your preference for each site a

See: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay tl;dr: The browser attempts to learn your preference for each site automatically based on how you interact with videos. You can see what it's calculated by visiting chrome://media-engagement

loeg 2y ago
Yeah, they've always claimed this but I've literally never wanted autoplay and it's never ever learned that preference, so...
Groxx 2y ago
> Media Engagement Index Solid evidence that Google knows just what I want from a browser: a taste of vomit.
Terr_ 2y ago
> attempts to learn Oh god, that reminds me of another piece of bullshit Chrome magic. They made a system when the browser shares signatures of forms/fields with a central server, which sends back "crowdsourced" autocompletion rules, and they've made it almost impossible for developers to stop it from doing that [0] even when it's flat-out wrong and users are complaining about inappropriate autocomplete suggestions being shown/recorded. Over the last ~8 years developers have submitted hundreds of examples [1] of why it's a stupid feature that at least needs a way to opt-out, but Chromium devs have kept it mandatory, and I suspect it's because Google/Alphabet is somehow exploiting all that leaked metadata about what forms people visit. [0] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842
- Terr_ 2y ago
  P.S.: Messing with the issue-tracker (and bringing up unpleasant memories of desperately trying to find a workaround in their source-code) I find that the two linked issue about this anti-feature rank are both in the top-15 most-voted open issues. (Rank 14 and 9, respectively.) https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open%20votecount%3E400&s=vote_count:desc&s=seven_day_view_count:desc&p=1 https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open%20votecount... (Vote count column not displayed by default.)

loeg 2y ago

Yeah, they've always claimed this but I've literally never wanted autoplay and it's never ever learned that preference, so...

Groxx 2y ago

> Media Engagement Index Solid evidence that Google knows just what I want from a browser: a taste of vomit.

Terr_ 2y ago

> attempts to learn Oh god, that reminds me of another piece of bullshit Chrome magic. They made a system when the browser shares signatures of forms/fields with a central server, which sends back "crowdsourced" autocompletion rules, and they've made it almost impossible for developers to stop it from doing that [0] even when it's flat-out wrong and users are complaining about inappropriate autocomplete suggestions being shown/recorded. Over the last ~8 years developers have submitted hundreds of examples [1] of why it's a stupid feature that at least needs a way to opt-out, but Chromium devs have kept it mandatory, and I suspect it's because Google/Alphabet is somehow exploiting all that leaked metadata about what forms people visit. [0] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842

Terr_ 2y ago
P.S.: Messing with the issue-tracker (and bringing up unpleasant memories of desperately trying to find a workaround in their source-code) I find that the two linked issue about this anti-feature rank are both in the top-15 most-voted open issues. (Rank 14 and 9, respectively.) https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open%20votecount%3E400&s=vote_count:desc&s=seven_day_view_count:desc&p=1 https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open%20votecount... (Vote count column not displayed by default.)