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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by jimmy1 on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:52AM (#19077870)
If you want only text, open a text-only e-reader.

The web is consisted of not only hypertext, but also hypermedia.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by adtac on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:06PM (#19078076)
"I don't want autoplaying video" -> "I only want text"

Quite the jump in logic

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by jimmy1 on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:59PM (#19081046)
"I don't want x y or z" -> "I can choose to not have x y or z and not force my desire to not have x y and z on everyone else" -- It applies to every scenario you can dream of

It's this concept called liberty that people have seem to have forgotten.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by nitrogen on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:03PM (#19078025)
The web was also meant to be consumed by varying User Agents that conformed to the needs of each user, so I think it's fair if someone wants a text-only user agent.
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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by cptskippy on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:29PM (#19078384)
So we should accept malicious javascript , ad tracking and other unsavory hypermedia as well?
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