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		eCa on Nov 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More HTML5 APIs To move beyond the ad issue. Maybe I'm not interested in watching the video (say a presentation) but only listen to it. Then I have a legitimate reason for not wanting the video to pause: doing other work in other tabs.

eli on Nov 8, 2012 [–]

That's still not an argument for treating the possibility of detecting visibility as "user hostile"

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