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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by shawnz on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:02PM (#19079492)
That would be way too complicated for the average user who wants their gifs to play. Given what you want is atypical, isn't it reasonable to expect you to configure it manually? Why should everyone else have to manually enable gifs when that is by far the more common preference?
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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by lugg on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:13PM (#19080169)
Is it? Where are you guys getting your stats in this?

Personally I feel like gifs are annoying and distracting.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by shawnz on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:28PM (#19080301)
Come on, be realistic. Tumblr didn't become a billion dollar business just by having good SEO. Lots of people enjoy scrolling through pages of gifs and they won't be satisfied with click-to-play on 100 different 5 second long animations.
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