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Autoplaying videos on the Internet is one of those features that creates a lot of disparity of opinion on the web. This means that websites can deliver content to you regardless of what the user is looking for and the latest to add this feature will be the Android app store, Google Play Store.
Google has indicated on its website that will soon enable automatic playback of videos in the Google Play Store It will do so this September 2019 And the reason is none other than to help users discover quality content at a glance, without having to interact with the application.
What is good and bad about autoplay in the Play Store?
As we have already indicated, videos that play automatically are a nuisance for many users and a good thing for others. It is true that a video that plays automatically has a better chance of being seen, but sometimes the user does not want that video to play. In turn, we cannot forget that these videos from the Google Play Store are stored on YouTube and thanks to this YouTube will see its usage statistics increase
The bad thing about automatic video playback is that sometimes it becomes very annoying, due to that sound that suddenly comes out of the mobile without you having touched anythingThat is the reason why many browsers have been forced to notify the user from which tab the sound is coming from, so that they can identify it quickly and cancel it.
But without a doubt, the most harmful thing about automatic reproduction is neither the annoying sound nor the fact that the user has to see content without having chosen it. The big problem with the use of automatic reproduction is the amount of mobile data that is spent Well, in many countries the amount of mobile data that the rates of the Telephone operators are usually too scarce and that means that this data is used up too quickly. That is the main reason why it should be possible to disable this feature in certain circumstances.
At this time it is not yet known whether or not Google will consider disabling this option but we hope, for the sake of some users, that it will. It is curious that this change comes after Apple has also enabled it in the iOS App Store.
