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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by chrismorgan on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:15PM (#25707998)
This is not true. Firefox readily supports blocking all video autoplay (Permissions → Autoplay has three choices: Allow Audio and Video; Block Audio; Block Audio and Video), which I gladly use. And I really wish animated images were treated the same, because it’s a bug that they’re not, but a well-entrenched one that’s nigh-impossible to fix.
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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by oehtXRwMkIs on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:46AM (#25711561)
Idk, as a user blocking all autoplay sounds great to me.
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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by chrismorgan on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:54AM (#25711642)
Thatʾs what I said. I was correcting the parent comment that said that you couldnʾt block autoplay of muted videos. I block all video autoplay, and wish I could block animated image autoplay also.
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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by folmar on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:58PM (#25722708)
This is the default, but some media sites have made autoplay videos _the_ next-gen whole page popups, so I gladly switched to block all. It also saves a lot of bandwidth.
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