"Disable automatic voice playback" function just added to Chrome will be implemented again after 5 months from "Game no longer sounds"

In Google Chrome update on PC that went in early May of 2018, Google added "Block audio automatic playing" function. However, due to this update, Google Chrome was unable to play audio in many content, such as browser games, and Google was unable to ignore the impact and removed the feature. However, rather than deleting this feature permanently, Google will reimplement it in October 2018, and we will set up a grace period for content developers to take measures.

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The "block automatic voice playback" function that Google added to Chrome on PC is a function that prevents users from automatically playing sounds from advertisements or videos that are subject to filtering by advertisement blocking software, It is aimed at not letting you feel. Looking at the user's eyes, although it is a very good effort, it has resulted in the harmful effect that speech disappears from many browser games and artist sites. Browser gamesQWOPMr. Bennett Fodi, who is known for developing such as "criticizing this function as" disaster of game on the web and audio art ".

"Chrome's team is working on improving for users and developers, but the developers did not tell the impact of the new auto-replay policy," said John Palette, product manager at Google. After announcing the deletion of the same function announced. Regarding the purpose of deleting the function, Mr. Palette tells "to give developers time to write the source code", and the virtual grace period for developers to make necessary changes to the contents created by themselves It explains it. The "block automatic voice playback" function will be implemented again in Google Chrome 70 released in October 2018.


Mr. Fody says it is a pleasant thing about temporary removal of this feature, "Google definitely has the power to destroy our work, but the authority to force us a workaround is I do not have a criticism ", and I anticipate that many of the affected sites will not be updated by October.