Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by davnicwil on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:56AM (#19430803)

So what's the list of browsers now that have autoplaying blocked or have that feature planned?

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by mental1896 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:07AM (#19430900)

I've started to make a list:

- Firefox -

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by ucha on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:14AM (#19430959)

Safari does that too.

https://www.howtogeek.com/326532/safari-now-disables-auto-pl...

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by swiley on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:15AM (#19430966)

Elinks and dillo have autoplay blocked :p

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by andyn on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:22AM (#19431045)

Chrome won't autoplay videos having audio. Unless you've already interacted with the site.

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by tsukurimashou on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:28AM (#19431104)

Lynx :^)

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by swebs on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:33AM (#19431140)

w3m

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by wojciechpolak on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:25AM (#19431074)

Safari has it and is doing it much better, because it blocks both video and audio autoplay. I just tested it on Firefox 66 and I'm very disappointed. It blocks only audio and... it's broken anyway. On one page the first video was audio muted (great!), but then the second video came after the first one finished playing and it was suddenly unmuted! The tab was inactive and suddenly the sound came from it. Until fixed, I'm still going to use Safari for this solely reason.

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by yoasif_ on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:03PM (#19435125)

Which site?

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by ape4 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:31AM (#19431127)

Generally this is good. But I wonder, lets say you want to allow autoplay on Netflix. Do you need to enable it on all subdomains and CDNs - that could be tedious. (I don't know if Netflix has subdomains, CDN, just an example)

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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by graindcafe on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:51AM (#19431978)

I think it doesn't matter where the media is but rather from what website it is played.

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