Data savings doesn't stop video auto play
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jgrzmmm last edited by
I cannot understand how Opera for Android is being advertised with its ability to save transfer and yet this function doesn't include disabling of video autoplay.
I know there were a lot of questions whether video autoplay disabling option is there, but haven't seen any reasonable explanation why it's not included. Any ideas?
Opera's philosophy is an absurd paradox - we help you to save data by giving you data saver option (which includes compressing images) and yet we cannot disable video autoplay which is the biggest data hog..
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BestCodes last edited by
@jgrzmmm Disabling autoplay for any normal video would effectively do nothing. Either the video can only be loaded when requested, or it can just be loaded automatically. As soon as a user navigates to a website that uses the
<video>in HTML, the video is automatically loaded, whether it autoplays or not. As for YouTube videos, they are loaded from an API link and while autoplay could technically be disabled, it can already easily be disabled via the video settings on YouTube. Forcing the autoplay off could cause errors.Hi, I'm Best_codes! I'm a full-stack web dev who moderates on the makeblock forum. I have a website, https://bestcodes.dev. I love Opera, so I'm on here occasionally to report bugs and answer some questions.
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jgrzmmm last edited by
@bestcodes Firefox for Android does it. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/playing-videos-firefox-android#w_enabling-and-disabling-video-autoplay
It works well on the news sites I visit daily (and these contain embedded videos from time to time) e.g. https://tvn24.pl/tvnwarszawa/najnowsze/warszawa-lesniczowka-w-lesie-kabackim-otwarta-po-remoncie-kiedy-bedzie-mozna-ja-zwiedzic-st7548057
btw, just checked, it works on Youtube as well -
