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Offline drake145

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Gifs auto playing on Google searches
« on: September 15, 2018, 11:15:33 PM »
Hi all,

I've noticed that google searches auto plays gif content (it appears to be only on mobile right now, as searching on my laptop doesn't seem to trigger them) and was wondering if that could potentially be a security concern.

Running a google search yields the below threads, where a community specialist advises that there is not way to turn it off and that feedback needs to be submitted to google. Doesn't seem to be a setting for that on other browsers either.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/UJmGPJx4XXE
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/JsMfC3j-nhk