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Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 05 2019, @10:44PM   
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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• You'd need to start by defining video You'd need to start by defining video (Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:13AM (1 child)

  by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:13AM (#797067) Journal

  I still want all autoplay stopped. Even if it's silent

  I'm interested to see what methods you'd use to block all of these methods of silent video playback [pineight.com]. Even blocking MPEG, WebM, GIF, and JavaScript doesn't block, say, a JPEG filmstrip cycled with CSS [pineight.com]. In order to begin to figure out how to block video, you'd first need to come up with a solid definition of what is and isn't video.

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• Re:You'd need to start by defining video (Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday February 06 2019, @06:02AM

  by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @06:02AM (#797077) Journal

  A browser option I used in the 90s when many were stuck with slow dial-up connections was "do not download images". Might still work today, though the web has evolved greatly since then. It should still be not just possible but even fairly easy to stop all video.

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