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SkipAd media session action

Category
Multimedia
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 128)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Support the SkipAd media session action. This skipad action allows Chrome to show a button in the system media controls or in the PiP window.

Motivation

This feature was initially proposed and implemented four years ago but remained disabled due to a lack of practical use cases. It already received LGTM from the Blink dev group back in February 2019 (see intent email for details: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/l6sW0G4jzhE/m/2bi3c8dZDwAJ). Given our team's (chromeOS UI team) plan to add this "skipAd" feature in our upcoming project, we are now proposing to enable it.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/chrome-73-media-updates#skipad https://github.com/WICG/mediasession/pull/203

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/picture-in-picture/skip-ad.html

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