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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by tempestn on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:10PM (#35519858)
What should be a setting? This specific youtube ambience thing? That is, but it shows the issue - you need to pick a default, and most people won't know they can change it. Having some idea of the capabilities of the device you're running on could allow you to choose sensible defaults.

But if you mean there should be a setting in the browser that websites could check, I agree that could be better.

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by JohnFen on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:42PM (#35527640)
Sensible defaults go a long way, yes! Although in the case of this YouTube thing, I think the sensible default is to have it disabled regardless of the capabilities of the machine.
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