Author: Brittany Vincent / Source: How-To Geek
When Google rolled out Chrome 66 earlier this May, it offered a tweak that pleased almost everyone by muting sites that would play sound automatically. Unfortunately, it also ended up breaking several projects’ audio.
This meant that a variety of different media, from popular web games to some of Google’s own projects effectively had their audio broken beyond repair.
Users were understandably upset, and in response to an overwhelming amount of backlash, Google retained the browser alteration that blocked autoplaying video and audio, but decided to push back the feature’s application for games and web apps to Chrome 71, which is set to debut in December.What does that mean for you? Chrome 70, is coming around the corner, and it will block basic autoplaying audio and video. But the game and project-breaking blocking isn’t set to officially begin until Chrome 71, at which point developers will be scrambling to figure out a solution.
Google communications manager Ivy Choi spoke to The Verge, where she stated that Chrome will begin “learning” which sites are typically used for playing audio and as such…
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