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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: 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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