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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Google Chrome 2015: Uninstall the Youtube app in Chrome to re-enable AdBlock
 
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Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

 https://twitter.com/antumbral/status/1194973121888976896?s=19

This seems like a funny change that breaks a bunch of stuff

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/google-chrome-experiment-crashes-browser-tabs-impacts-companies-worldwide/

Stormgale fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Nov 15, 2019

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Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

MrMoo posted:

Some broken brain there, the occlusion API is necessary to stop the bullshit farming Facebook likes.

VisibilityState = hidden has been there for ages, and is useful for lowering resource usage in background tabs, YouTube uses to stop auto-playing videos. Also see timer resolution dropping in background tabs, and features like Canvas painting doesn't work at all when in the background as the browser discards the GPU resources.

The specific issue is the new change that attempts to apply this not only to background (i.e. non focused) tabs but the occlusion of a focused tab with another window, and how google deployed this change to prod version as part of A/B Testing.

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