Google postpones automatic updates to turn off Chrome sound due to many web games

Google is slowly retracting updates on Chrome to help block audio playback automatically after web developers say this feature affects many games and applications on the browser.

The feature was released on Chrome 66 in early May, the goal is not to let ads and videos annoying users. While previously, thanks to ad blocking software, Chrome's new feature has been very helpful and very much expected. But when it came out, we knew that this feature also completely removed sound on many websites.

'We have worked hard to improve the experience for both users and developers but in this case we did not do well to pay attention to the impact of the new policy on developers', governing product manager at Google John Pallett said.

Both developers and Google have work to do with new features

This did not completely eliminate the elements of the auto-blocking feature on Chrome 66, but limited the Web Audio API system used by application developers, and the limitation of spontaneously streaming audio and video usually remains the same.

This is also not a long-term measure. Pallett said the limit will be back on Chrome 70 released in October, he also encouraged developers to change the code according to Google's instructions.

This does not mean that developers have won because Google never promised to fix their core problem in the next update. Moving update features to October, both game makers and Chrome have their own pressures.

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