Google killing off Instant Search, a standard feature since 2010

[Smudger]

Gonna be honest here, the only good place for autoplaying videos is when you're browsing porn sites so you can get a quick snapshot of whether you'd like the video or not or whether you're going to waste precious "you" time.

It wouldn't work in anything else for me because how can i get a snapshot of whether I would like a video on thorium reactors when all i see is an image of a guy talking, a glimpse of a reactor and some graphic?

I've heard, though not experienced, ahem, that if you hover over the thumbnails with the pointer, you get a quick summary of the video.

[Dashers]

Good to see instant search die. I wonder if they can reverse the loss of Google Discussion search, which disappeared around the time as instant was introduced.

Auto-play is evil. Reminds me of the horrors of Flash adverts that use to start playing automatically on websites. Still, Firefox it can be turned off globally by setting media.autoplay.enabled to false.

[watercooled]

I've heard, though not experienced, ahem, that if you hover over the thumbnails with the pointer, you get a quick summary of the video.

It seems Youtube has started doing that now too. I wonder if the content creators get to choose what is previewed?

[Ttaskmaster]

I've heard, though not experienced, ahem, that if you hover over the thumbnails with the pointer, you get a quick summary of the video.

Depends - Not all sites have implemented this...

[ByteMyAscii]

I am hostile to autoplay videos ANY time.
If google want me to stop using adblockers, then that is exactly the wrong way to go about it, and is exactly the sort of behaviour that prompts me to use one.
The only reason they generate earnings, is accidental clicks in the wrong place when trying to shut the damn thing up.

[ByteMyAscii]

I am hostile to autoplay videos ANY time.
If google want me to stop using adblockers, then that is exactly the wrong way to go about it, and is exactly the sort of behaviour that prompts me to use one.
The only reason they generate earnings, is accidental clicks in the wrong place when trying to shut the damn thing up.

I've heard, though not experienced, ahem, that if you hover over the thumbnails with the pointer, you get a quick summary of the video.

Hovering, which happens easily during normal browsing isn't in my opinion a reason either an acceptable reason for autoplaying, even a summary - which isn't typically what I have seen.
if it isn't autoplaying at the start, hovering will start it.

Good to see instant search die. I wonder if they can reverse the loss of Google Discussion search, which disappeared around the time as instant was introduced.

Auto-play is evil. Reminds me of the horrors of Flash adverts that use to start playing automatically on websites. Still, Firefox it can be turned off globally by setting media.autoplay.enabled to false.

Looks like another reason to switch to firefox away from chrome, which given the apparent memory and loading improvements in recent betas might be worth me trying again.

[Biscuit]

I use firefox and disabled autoplay in the browser settings (not an extension). Can cause some real frustration at times to actually get the damn thing to play if you really want to watch the video, but so far I can live with it.

[roger that]

11 years between posts! That must be something of a record

Welcome back!

Thanks, didn't realise it had been that long. At least I can't be accused of spamming the board.

[ik9000]

Thanks, didn't realise it had been that long. At least I can't be accused of spamming the board.

well done for remembering your password. Come to think of it given the forced password reset a few months back how did you even manage to log in?

[roger that]

well done for remembering your password. Come to think of it given the forced password reset a few months back how did you even manage to log in?

Simple good password management.