April 14, 2017
Patch to stop video autoplay in Chrome
I don't like an annoying videos crying out loud on me from respectful web sites (mostly ads). Also I don't want to setup another one Chrome extension (230000 users using that). I already have too much of them. And yes, uBlock Origin cannot stop them all.
So I've patched Chrome (chromium actually) source code and compiled it for myself from source. Voila, it works! Patch is below just to know how simple the change (that is being discussed for 2 years with no effect, while the problem itself exists for much more than 5 years) is.
And yes, I don't mind pressing manually for video to start every time. Also I don't mind stop wasting my data plan and draining laptop battery. Thanks Google for being unfriendly and not having any user settings for this ;-)
Disclaimer: published under MIT License. That is, simply: "as-is", no guarantees, by downloading this patch you know what are you doing.
So I've patched Chrome (chromium actually) source code and compiled it for myself from source. Voila, it works! Patch is below just to know how simple the change (that is being discussed for 2 years with no effect, while the problem itself exists for much more than 5 years) is.
And yes, I don't mind pressing manually for video to start every time. Also I don't mind stop wasting my data plan and draining laptop battery. Thanks Google for being unfriendly and not having any user settings for this ;-)
Disclaimer: published under MIT License. That is, simply: "as-is", no guarantees, by downloading this patch you know what are you doing.
PS. How for Google is that possible to build such an unrelevant ads platform on a base of such modern data analysis techniques and so many context-related ads? I just don't see any relevant video or text ads for the last few years.
Labels: ads, autoplay, chrome, chromium, linux, opensource, patch, video, webkit
