Apple's new version of macOS comes out today, and while almost every upgrade is under the hood and out of sight, there is one really great new feature inside Safari that is definitely worth updating for: in High Sierra, Safari automatically mutes autoplaying videos. The update to High Sierra is free and will be available for all Macs released since 2010, and some Macs introduced in 2009 as well. You can also get the Safari update on earlier versions of macOS, by updating to Safari 11. I've been browsing the web in Safari for the past couple weeks, and the internet has felt like a somewhat calmer place, thanks to this new feature. If a video would normally autoplay with sound, it'll still appear, but Safari will automatically pause it before the video can start to emit noise. That way, you get to browse in peace and quiet but can still hit play in the (unlikely) event that the autoplaying video was something you were interested in. A somewhat quieter, calmer web The feature works well. I tested it out on a number of websites that include autoplaying videos on their pages, including Bloomberg and CNET, and Safari always paused the videos before they could start to play. Safari also mutes those annoying ads that start to play sound only once you mouse over them (which you inevitably do by accident, not because you're interested in them), even when they would normally get activated, which I was particularly happy to see. Safari tries to be smart about which sites it blocks autoplaying video on, too. YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, Crackle, Vudu, and DailyMotion are among the sites allowed to autoplay videos with sound turned on by default. That makes enough sense, since we want videos to play when we go to those sites. There seems to be some inconsistency among TV streaming sites, though: for instance, it looked to me like HBO Go was whitelisted, but HBO Now was not. The same goes for DirecTV Now, which was whitelisted, and Sling TV, which didn't appear to have to go ahead to autoplay with sound. That's not going to create enormous problems for these sites or their subscribers, but I'm sure the companies behind them will be plenty annoyed with Apple. If you do want to change Safari's behavior here, the toggle is a little bit hidden. You have to go to the Safari menubar menu, click 'settings for this website,' and then find the 'auto-play' drop-down to change it. It's fast enough to change once you know where to look, but it took some searching for me to find it. Controls are also tucked away inside Safari's preferences menu. Another thing that's really nice about Safari in High Sierra is a new feature that prevents websites and ad companies from following you around the web. It does this by automatically cutting off websites’ access to tracking data left on your computer by websites you don’t regularly visit, so that advertisers can’t gather too much data on you. Some trackers will still be unavoidable, but Safari is supposed to cut out the vast majority of them. This feature doesn't change the experience of browsing the web all that much — but it does provide some comfort, and, really, is a reasonable privacy measure. The only difference I noticed was on ads served by Amazon: when visiting the same website in Safari and Chrome, the Safari page showed me a bunch of products to buy that were relevant to the page I was on (Blu-rays, because I was on a movie news site), while the ad in Chrome displayed a bunch of products similar to ones I had somewhat recently viewed, including an Echo and an Xbox controller. A huge privacy feature you might barely notice I suppose I preferred the more anonymous ad (I don't even own an Xbox), but the actual browsing experience wasn't all that different. Still, I'm sure people will be happy to know they're being followed around less. Ms office 2016 updates for mac. And while I can see the benefit to targeted ads — I don't entirely mind ads being made somewhat more relevant to me — I'm not a fan of having one company or product doggedly follow me around the web just because I clicked on their link one time. The absence of compatibility problems allows using Recovery. (recoverytoolbox.com),,,,,,,, 17 The absence of compatibility problems allows using Recovery Toolbox for RAR with any version of rar archive, it does not matter which application was used for the creation of this document.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |