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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Eloston

JWPLAYER videos not disabled

Open BillH99999 opened this issue 7 years ago • 6 comments

JWPLAYER videos are still playing on www.seattlepi.com. Should they be disabled by the plugin?

Thanks, Bill

BillH99999 avatar Apr 02 '17 02:04 BillH99999

Yes, but the extension's not written very well and development has stagnated. There's an idea of a rewrite floating around but no one's interested in doing that either.

Chromium 57 introduced a feature to prevent autoplay and autobuffering only on videos originating from a foreign domain, which will block some advertising videos. Also, I believe nothing can autoplay in a background tab.

Eloston avatar Apr 02 '17 04:04 Eloston

Thanks for the reply. That is not what I was hoping to hear. I hope someone starts to work on it again. In the meantime do you know of any other HTML5 autoplay blockers that work?

Thanks, Bill

BillH99999 avatar Apr 02 '17 05:04 BillH99999

Sorry, I don't. But I'm hoping that Google will expand upon what they have in version 57, because they have more input (user inputs, for example) and lower-level controls that can do a better job than any extension can.

Eloston avatar Apr 02 '17 05:04 Eloston

OK... thanks for the replies.

Bill

BillH99999 avatar Apr 02 '17 05:04 BillH99999

We should leave this open since you provided another website to test autoplaying. Might be helpful at some point.

Eloston avatar Apr 02 '17 05:04 Eloston

I've noticed the same issue on thv11.com with the jwplayer not being disabled. The one I found was http://www.thv11.com/news/local/improvements-coming-for-busy-bowman-and-markham-intersection-in-little-rock/433019808 although I checked several news stories and they all had the same result.

Just figured I'd add a me too for the jwplayer problem.

kbdank71 avatar Apr 21 '17 17:04 kbdank71