News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by muddi900 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:34PM (#10697909)
Autoplaying videos. They are the worst. Especially of you have metered internet, which a sizable population does.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by gherkin0 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:33PM (#10698315)
They're annoying even if they're legitimate, like CNN having an auto-play video (even on mobile) at the top of every news article.

I use firefox, so I disabled them all using media.autoplay.enabled = false. That solved it, but it made Youtube embeds and a few other things work a little funny.

[ Parent | on HN ]