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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, 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.

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  • (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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      Account abandoned.

      • (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?