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A comment on Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio. Parent comment

Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by JohnFen on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:48PM (#19078627)
> Muted autoplay is unblockable because I can write a script that flips through frames.

Since I don't allow scripts to execute in my browser by default, I've already blocked your autoplay workaraound.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by eridius on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:37PM (#19082417)
Muted autoplay is unblockable because it's equivalent to using an image that specifies `Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace` and constantly streams new image frames to the client.
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