Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)

Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by amluto on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:54PM (#35215531)

I would prefer that audio require explicit opt-in, not just interaction. The biggest offender I regularly encounter is not even what I would normally consider an evil website: npr.org

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by quesera on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:03AM (#35216202)

My browser never plays audio which I do not explicitly request. That would be madness!

This is my preferred interface for NPR news, and it might address your issue also:

https://text.npr.org/

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by amluto on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:37PM (#35220735)

What browser, and how did you configure that?

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by quesera on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:20PM (#35222492)

Firefox, with no explicit configuration for this purpose, but I suspect uBlock Origin and/or uMatrix may contribute.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by aszlig on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:15PM (#35239558)

This is actually very easy to patch: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/blob/61b943d89b08959e...

Essentially it's disabling gesture activation, so if you want to allow audio you need to do this explicitly. Note however, that whenever you directly visit a video file, audio will still play but this is very rarely the case.

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