
“We believe by learning from the user – and anticipating their intention on a per website basis – we can create the best user experience. The pre-seeded site list is algorithmically generated and only sites with enough users permitting autoplay on that site are added to the list. Each website gets a score between zero and one in MEI, where higher scores indicate that the user doesn’t mind audio playing on that website.įor new user profiles or if a user clears their browsing data, a pre-seed list based on anonymized user aggregated MEI scores is used to track which websites can autoplay. MEI tracks the number of visits to a site that includes audio playback of more than 7 seconds long. an index stored locally per Chrome profile on a device.

This is done with the help of a “Media Engagement Index” (MEI) i.e. So in case, if a user regularly lets an audio play for more than 7 seconds on a website, the autoplay gets enabled for that website.
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For most of the sites, playback will be resumed but a small code adjustment will be required in other cases to resume the audio.Īdditionally, Google has added a new approach to the policy that includes tracking users’ past behavior with the sites that have autoplay enabled. For websites that want to be able to autoplay their content, the new policy change will prevent playback by default. The Autoplay policy imposes restrictions that prevent videos and audios from autoplaying in the web browser.

The latest policy change is scheduled to come out along with Chrome 71, in the upcoming month.

The policy had been delayed when it was released with the Chrome 66 stable release, back in May this year. Google Chrome team finally announced the release date for its Autoplay Policy, earlier this week.
