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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by bunderbunder on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:10PM (#19078133)
Giving other people a to default disable a thing does not force you to do it, too. Giving different people options about how they want to experience the Web would be the entire point.
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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by falcolas on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:17PM (#19078219)
The media.autoplay flags in about:config provide that option for anyone who wants it (and even more granular controls than those being exposed in the UI here).
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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by munk-a on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:18PM (#19078974)
Some big browsers need to disable auto-play by default to force websites to actually support commencing and pausing video in terrible tiny javascript video players.
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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by hendersoon on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:59PM (#19078755)
They don't work. I have all of those flags enabled and sites like CNN still autoplay videos. With sound, too, as a matter of fact.
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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by ubercow13 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:18PM (#19082583)
If it's already not possible to implement perfectly, what is being argued for in this thread exactly?
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