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

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: 3, Interesting) by Booga1 on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:09AM (7 children)

    by Booga1 (6333) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:09AM (#796984)

    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:

    • Bring back the ability to see where links actually point to when you hover over links.
    • Turn off the ability to auto-load completely different URLs when scrolling a page.
    • Turn off the ability for videos to follow you as you scroll down a page.
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:23AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:23AM (#796986)

    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...

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @04:03AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @04:03AM (#797054)

    Turn off the ability to auto-load completely different URLs when scrolling a page.

    Turned off by running NoScript in default deny JS mode.

    Turn off the ability for videos to follow you as you scroll down a page.

    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)

      by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:19AM (#797069) Journal

      Turn off the ability for videos to follow you as you scroll down a page.

      Turned off by running NoScript in default deny JS mode.

      Not always. If you've turned off script, an HTML document can still use any of these:

      • <video autoplay muted loop playsinline> inside a box with position:fixed
      • <img src="ad.gif"> inside a box with position:fixed
      • A stepped CSS animation [teamtreehouse.com] inside a box with position:fixed
      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:53AM (1 child)

        by Bot (3902) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:53AM (#797119) Journal

        Indeed, I usually use Firefox inspect element Dev command and delete the offending node. Great for getting rid of shielding divs.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:22AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:22AM (#797123)

          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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @03:18PM (#797177)

    The videos that follow you as you scroll are the worst.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:17PM (#797326)

    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.