Steam is autoplaying store page videos

[_galaxy]

This did not happen before I don't know if it's a bug but I certainly do not like this new behaviour so please change it

[Boblin the Goblin]

This has always been a thing since I can remember.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by _galaxy:

This did not happen before I don't know if it's a bug but I certainly do not like this new behaviour so please change it

Did you click the little X in the video that turns off auto play?

[_galaxy]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by _galaxy:

This did not happen before I don't know if it's a bug but I certainly do not like this new behaviour so please change it

Did you click the little X in the video that turns off auto play?

:qr:

Where is that, send screenshot

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by _galaxy:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Did you click the little X in the video that turns off auto play?

Where is that, send screenshot

Hover over the video to see the play button and the volume icon. Next to the volume slider is a little box with the text, "Autoplay videos."

Click the box to add the X to it which will stop the auto playing.

Clearing your cookies/cache will reset this option back to the default ON.

[Kumagoro]

Something has changed with the redesign, though? I used to have "autoplay videos" enabled, and it would mean that the video would start upon entering the store page, but I could stop it manually and it would stay stopped. Now it resumes playing after a while.
Even worse, I disabled the autoplay, and it still starts playing if I change tab and go back.

[wind_candle]

Originally posted by Kumagoro:

Something has changed with the redesign, though? I used to have "autoplay videos" enabled, and it would mean that the video would start upon entering the store page, but I could stop it manually and it would stay stopped. Now it resumes playing after a while.
Even worse, I disabled the autoplay, and it still starts playing if I change tab and go back.

This has nothing to do with the redesign, it's an intentional change made around 2 weeks ago to pause the video when you switch tabs and resume when you return.

[Kumagoro]

Originally posted by wind_candle:

Originally posted by Kumagoro:

Something has changed with the redesign, though? I used to have "autoplay videos" enabled, and it would mean that the video would start upon entering the store page, but I could stop it manually and it would stay stopped. Now it resumes playing after a while.
Even worse, I disabled the autoplay, and it still starts playing if I change tab and go back.

This has nothing to do with the redesign, it's an intentional change made around 2 weeks ago to pause the video when you switch tabs and resume when you return.

Yeah, I didn't imply it was because of the redesign directly, I just noticed it happen around that time. The annoying part is that it resumes videos that I had purposely stopped, not just videos that were stopped automatically by changing tab. And it overrides the autoplay option.

[wind_candle]

The code path for video controls and this pause/resume behavior are not in the same scope, so it's currently not possible for one to affect the other. You can run this to disable the new bahavior:

 $J(document).off('visibilitychange') 

[RiO]

Originally posted by wind_candle:

The code path for video controls and this pause/resume behavior are not in the same scope, so it's currently not possible for one to affect the other. You can run this to disable the new bahavior:

 $J(document).off('visibilitychange') 

Really? It's 2023 and the redesigned Steam storefront still uses jQuery?
Wow...

What new lows will Valve sink to next?

> $J.fn.jquery
"1.8.3"

Oh cool. A version from 2012 that has 3 known XSS vulnerabilities and a case of prototype pollution. Just what we all want to see on a storefront handling sensitive account information including PII and payment data, no doubt...

[AllTracTurbo]

This is horrible. I don't want to turn autoplay off because the number one thing I do when I open a store page is watch the trailer, but I often have multiple game store pages open for different games when I am deciding what to buy or just looking for a game to play and every time I switch to a tab the video starts playing again. I don't want trailers for 4 or 6 games playing at the same time.

The autoplay feature worked perfectly fine in the past, but now it makes no sense. If I manually pause a video, I want that video to stay paused. There is no reason for Steam to decide when I want to unpause a video.

[_galaxy]

Originally posted by AllTracTurbo:

This is horrible. I don't want to turn autoplay off because the number one thing I do when I open a store page is watch the trailer, but I often have multiple game store pages open for different games when I am deciding what to buy or just looking for a game to play and every time I switch to a tab the video starts playing again. I don't want trailers for 4 or 6 games playing at the same time.

The autoplay feature worked perfectly fine in the past, but now it makes no sense. If I manually pause a video, I want that video to stay paused. There is no reason for Steam to decide when I want to unpause a video.

Yeah I don't know what happened to it. It seemed to change to something I didn't like but I don't remember the past behaviour.