Google has confirmed that it is trialling videos that automatically start playing when they appear in its search results.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40729737
"Auto-play videos are deeply annoying to a vast swathe of users, so if Google decides to go down this route it will no doubt enrage a very vocal part of the internet community," commented Ben Wood from the CCS Insight tech consultancy.
Count me annoyed.
And I though they couldn't find a reason to justify upping the minimum ram in all (basic) user's computers from 4GB to 8GB+.
Just put video that could be rendered with less 128MB of memory (VLC) in a browser and have it need 512MB+, then do it 9 more times per page (while also having a working OS, plus microsoft tracking, plus adware the user installed by accident, plus memory leaks in the OS due to no testing, plus memory leaks in the web page(s) because "who cares how sloppy we do the javascript as long as the framework does it for me and I don't have to think and it works at least once who cares that I just leaked a 1GB canvas until this page is unloaded")
I've seen an Atari game in html5 drop frames and use 2.5GB of ram on a decent modern machine.
I know what it is, google is just working their way to us needing to buy a 49 qubit quantum computer from them to solve an NP hard problem in poorly coded video rendering (rather than anyone needing to code properly anymore).