Steven Englehardt writes: > While it may have been > theoretically possible for all trackers to gather statistics on video > playback for each configuration, the only scripts that could practically > carry out those attacks without degrading user experience would have been > video providers. This will be especially true if browsers start blocking > autoplay by default (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376321), > since users will never interact with media elements from fingerprinting > scripts. [...]
> If autoplay is eventually blocked by default could we gate the response of > this API on user interaction with the media element? Note that current playback blocking work is focused on media elements that produce audio. Video-only elements would not be affected. The blocking is also gated by interaction with the document, rather than any particular element. (There may be other non-default behaviors available.) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
