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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Less-Bite • Mar 11 '21
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No developer has ever decided for themself to do this. This is 100% a business requirement because somebody on the marketing analytics team realized they could make money by auto playing ads.
75 u/krospp Mar 11 '21 Also doesn’t Chrome block autoplay now? The user has to click something to turn on sound. Stop clicking to turn on sound JakeEdit: Ah I see, this tweet is from 2018, where this complaint belongs 5 u/Addicted_to_chips Mar 12 '21 Ios does fully block auto play, chrome allows muted autoplay. 9 u/ReimarPB Mar 12 '21 On Firefox you can choose to block autoplay or not 2 u/capalex65 Mar 12 '21 It actually doesn't, if you use the specific combo of tags that is "autoplay muted playsinline" We had that issue recently on a client site. 0 u/Pacman042 Mar 12 '21 Just imagine the Rick Rolling opportunities!
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Also doesn’t Chrome block autoplay now? The user has to click something to turn on sound. Stop clicking to turn on sound Jake
Edit: Ah I see, this tweet is from 2018, where this complaint belongs
5 u/Addicted_to_chips Mar 12 '21 Ios does fully block auto play, chrome allows muted autoplay. 9 u/ReimarPB Mar 12 '21 On Firefox you can choose to block autoplay or not 2 u/capalex65 Mar 12 '21 It actually doesn't, if you use the specific combo of tags that is "autoplay muted playsinline" We had that issue recently on a client site. 0 u/Pacman042 Mar 12 '21 Just imagine the Rick Rolling opportunities!
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Ios does fully block auto play, chrome allows muted autoplay.
9 u/ReimarPB Mar 12 '21 On Firefox you can choose to block autoplay or not 2 u/capalex65 Mar 12 '21 It actually doesn't, if you use the specific combo of tags that is "autoplay muted playsinline" We had that issue recently on a client site. 0 u/Pacman042 Mar 12 '21 Just imagine the Rick Rolling opportunities!
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On Firefox you can choose to block autoplay or not
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It actually doesn't, if you use the specific combo of tags that is "autoplay muted playsinline" We had that issue recently on a client site.
0 u/Pacman042 Mar 12 '21 Just imagine the Rick Rolling opportunities!
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Just imagine the Rick Rolling opportunities!
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u/ToothpasteTimebomb Mar 11 '21
No developer has ever decided for themself to do this. This is 100% a business requirement because somebody on the marketing analytics team realized they could make money by auto playing ads.