take heed, google: you've been doing things better than your competitors have over the last few years. i'm using a lot of your services right now for that reason. but, if you start getting invasive you're going to start driving people out and propping up your competitors.

i suspect google is actually trying to get people to move to chrome, but the way chrome works is very invasive and it's very bad on ram, as well. again: i'm more likely to avoid youtube than i am to use chrome.

i'm more likely to not use youtube than i am to accept autoplay. it's just not a good feature, and if i can't control it then i'm not using the site.

if you're annoyed by youtube breaking flashblock, and simply do not consider allowing autoplaying videos to be an acceptable option, one workaround is as follows:

1) temporarily put youtube in your flashblock white list
2) install an out of date version of flash
3) clear your cookies/cache/etc

that way, whenever you go to a video it will tell you that flash is out of date, which will block the autoplay.

hopefully, flashbock resolves this quickly...