No autoplay videos/twitch feeds please

Halcypher · August 16, 2018, 6:34am

Moto G5
Android 7.0
Chrome 68.0.3440.91

lonin · August 16, 2018, 3:36pm

Thanks, we’ll look into this.

Halcypher · August 16, 2018, 4:49pm

Didn’t reproduce with today’s deal

lonin · August 16, 2018, 6:59pm

We just pushed out an update and are working on another to solve this for good.

Halcypher · August 16, 2018, 7:10pm

Nice

delenn13 · August 16, 2018, 7:15pm

Good! Because I was worried about that when i go camping as I use my tablet to get my coins daily.

eishiya · August 17, 2018, 11:24pm

Until there’s a proper solution to the autoplay problem, you can stop embedded Twitch streams from loading by blocking Twitch in your adblocker of choice.

kelt · August 19, 2018, 4:16pm

I blocked it like this in uBlock Origin, it removes the whole part with livestreams and trailers.

! 19.08.2018, 18:07:57 https://www.chrono.gg/
||Twitch Error

! 19.08.2018, 18:07:57 https://www.chrono.gg/
||embed.twitch.tv/

! 19.08.2018, 18:08:15 https://www.chrono.gg/
www.chrono.gg##.video-content

! 19.08.2018, 18:08:26 https://www.chrono.gg/
www.chrono.gg##.selected

! 19.08.2018, 18:08:42 https://www.chrono.gg/
www.chrono.gg##.video-container

! 19.08.2018, 18:09:16 https://www.chrono.gg/
www.chrono.gg##div.wrapper–lightbg:nth-of-type(5)

This is the result:

Halcypher · August 30, 2018, 4:17pm

Just happened again with one of the charity Streamers
But I can’t get it to reliably reproduce.

lonin · August 30, 2018, 4:49pm

We have a full fix for this in testing now, sorry about that!

Magerama · September 18, 2018, 11:42pm

Is not a good thing, you know? I couldn’t even understand what was eating up my traffic at first. I would’ve been really angry if I didn’t appreciate your site so much. Avoid doing that shit (and “funny music” or whatnot) in the future, alright?

kovec · September 20, 2018, 6:36am

It’s easy to stop this in Firefox without relying on extensions:

The video doesn’t buffer or play until you click on it.

Magerama · September 23, 2018, 9:33pm

You’re still doing it. Just a reminder.

Magerama · October 6, 2018, 8:27pm

You don’t want to fix this, do you?

Scrofa · October 6, 2018, 8:29pm

Please fix this. Imagine having a metered connection and having a silent stream on the bottom of one of the tabs just eating up your money for nothing - this is it precisely. It’s not a minor issue.

Magerama · October 6, 2018, 8:34pm

Half a year should’ve been more than enough to fix such technically minor (but troublesome) issue. Maybe you think that you’re doing the right thing by forcing people to take part in your charity events without their consent, but I would say that it only undermines the cause. For example, I doubt that Total Biscuit would condone such anti-consumer behavior.

lonin · October 16, 2018, 6:49pm

Hey all, wanted to let you know that we’ve added a toggle to the stream section that will turn off autoplaying:

Your choice will be saved in your local storage and remain selected until you clear it. Apologies for the delay and please let me know if you run into any issues with it!

delenn13 · October 16, 2018, 6:52pm

Thank you so much. I noticed it earlier but I figured i had just missed the announcement while I was gone…LOL

KSib · October 16, 2018, 7:48pm

As a note, disabling the feature will also disable chat for the embedded stream, but you can still click into the stream and chat there if you’d like

Magerama · October 16, 2018, 11:58pm

Yay!