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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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    "I have a phone. Call me if you like"

    "On my plan, making or receiving phone calls costs me money per incoming or outgoing minute and per incoming or outgoing text message. I was trying to avoid substantial carrier charges by using those apps. Nor can I copy and paste between an application on my computer and a text message on my phone."

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