If we can start tagging sites with a tag like [Auto-play], I feel it would save a lot of us from being taken in by surprise when we visit these sites.
Web browsers are generally free to use and there are several serious contenders and many less popular ones.
So the main thing they should be competing on is user experience.
But it seems to me that browsers frequently fail to deliver a user-first experience.
The browser should only take actions specifically requested by a user, as his agent. Everything about the experience needs to be reframed from that perspective.
Some browsers lately seem to be doing a little better at this, but just adding "advanced flag" features on to an existing product isn't going to help mainstream users at all.
chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-stop-auto...
I know plenty of people who work in advertising.
That’s the funny thing, most people I know in advertising complain about page slowness and marketing run ad blockers.
Even they hate auto-play video, but they’re perfectly willing to try and force it and a thousand other abominations on other people.
Which makes them... sociopaths?