[jamessb]

> Given the number of people who hate unauthorized autoplaying video (including silent video), it’s sort of amazing that Chrome’s product management team hasn’t added a way to prevent it

I wouldn't hold much hope for them doing this - the official autoplay policy announcement blog post says [1]:

> One cool way to engage users is about using muted autoplay and let them chose to unmute (see code snippet below). Some websites already do this effectively, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

[apatters]

> One cool way to engage users is about using muted autoplay and let them chose to unmute (see code snippet below).

This line really illustrates how poorly Google understands the role of the browser. The browser's job isn't to help developers "engage" users, which just means getting them to spend more of their time on the site. Why would any user install a browser which is optimized to consume as much of their time as possible? The browser's job is to protect me from abusive publishers, not enable more abuse.