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/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Booga1 on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:09AM (7 children)
Now this is a feature I've wanted for a long while. This will save users bandwidth and reduce my need to hunt for the dang stop/pause button on every friggin' page with a video I don't want to watch.
Other features I'd like:
(Score: 4, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:23AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see where it would prevent the video from downloading, only from playing, so I don't see where it will save bandwidth. The article* did state it would allow muted video to play.
As to the three bullet points at the bottom, YES, YES and YES!!!!
*I'm sorry, I read the article, it was short...
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @04:03AM (3 children)
Turned off by running NoScript in default deny JS mode.
Turned off by running NoScript in default deny JS mode.
https://noscript.net/ - install it, and browse a better, much less distracting, web.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Pino P on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:19AM (2 children)
Not always. If you've turned off script, an HTML document can still use any of these:
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:53AM (1 child)
Indeed, I usually use Firefox inspect element Dev command and delete the offending node. Great for getting rid of shielding divs.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:22AM
When Firefox implements this crap [theregister.co.uk] and you can no longer manipulate the DOM.. what then?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @03:18PM
The videos that follow you as you scroll are the worst.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:17PM
or you take your clicking business elsewhere instead of continuing to reward stupid motherfuckers or wait on your browser to meddle in how websites are rendered b/c people are such lazy sycophantic slaves.