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Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 05 2019, @10:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the hallelujah,-it's-about-time dept.

Freeman writes:

One of the scourges of sane people everywhere and parents with sleeping children, shall soon be vanquished by Firefox. The next release should include the blocking of auto-playing video. "... by default, any site that tries to play video with audio will have that video playback blocked." Despite some of the annoying things Firefox has done in the past. They seem to still be doing things right. With Chrome recently, setting aim to disable ad-blockers. Firefox just keeps looking all the better.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/firefox-to-block-noisy-autoplaying-video-in-next-release/

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:24PM (#796970)

    That "feature" was the final spit-to-the-face that Netflix decided they wouldn't change. Like it would be that hard to add a "don't autoplay" option in the user preferences.

    Fuck them, no more money from me.

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