Video-sharing site YouTube is testing a new feature on its Android app that enables users to assess auto-play video content they encounter while browsing to decide if they want to watch it. Videos on the app homepage will play automatically with subtitles rather than sound, stopping immediately if a user continues scrolling, with the same process continuing for the next video that comes into view. The feature, which was first spotted by TechCrunch, allows people who are watching videos in their mobile browser and have not yet clicked an ad or other link to pause them before playing them.
Video-sharing site YouTube is testing a new feature on its Android app that enables users to assess auto-play video content they encounter while browsing to decide if they want to watch it. Videos on the app homepage will play automatically with subtitles rather than sound, stopping immediately if a user continues scrolling, with the same process continuing for the next video that comes into view. The move follows Google's August launch of video previews in search results, which offer six-second silent clips of a video.