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: 5, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Tuesday February 05 2019, @10:59PM (3 children)
Every time I go there I futilely try to scroll through looking for those 3 pixels on the entire damned screen that don't kick off a blaring computer generated preview of a show until I finally break down and silence the tab.
This will be very welcome and make Netflix much much less annoying.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:24PM
That "feature" was the final spit-to-the-face that Netflix decided they wouldn't change. Like it would be that hard to add a "don't autoplay" option in the user preferences.
Fuck them, no more money from me.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:08AM (1 child)
I just a couple weeks ago discovered that my T-Mobile business plan includes free Netflix, but not by default: I have to request it by calling T-Mobile or visiting a shop.
That _almost_ gives me a good reason to get my phone reconnected, but really, I'd rather spend my singing tips on Hookers and Blow.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @02:15AM
Or A new blowup girlfriend
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:19PM (2 children)
I wonder, is this "big" change just simply making the default setting false for media.autoplay.enabled? That's been almost the first thing I change when I install Firefox. Go into about:config, and change that one setting. That and uBlock Origin squashes most of the annoying autoplay crap. A few things still slip through, be nice if Firefox 66 stops them all. But it seems they're making exceptions for silent video.
I still want all autoplay stopped. Even if it's silent, it's still draining the batteries and making the computer slower.
As a last resort, can always browse on a desktop with the speakers unplugged.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:13AM (1 child)
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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday February 06 2019, @06:02AM
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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:42PM (2 children)
Firefox is still a damm good browser, but not the release version. I use Firefox nightly and I prefer it to Chrome
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:46AM (1 child)
Does it love you back or is it non-consensual?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @03:12AM
Stop clicking me there ... hey, don't touch my scroll bars ... if you look at my preferences you'll see that you are not listed in any of them ... don't clear my cache, cookies and history! that's a browser roofie!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Booga1 on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:09AM (7 children)
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:
(Score: 4, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 06 2019, @12:23AM
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)
Turned off by running NoScript in default deny JS mode.
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)
Not always. If you've turned off script, an HTML document can still use any of these:
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:53AM (1 child)
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
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
The videos that follow you as you scroll are the worst.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:17PM
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @02:17AM
Pluggins that control page content still work, right?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @01:08PM (9 children)
I never want any webpage to record audio or video from my device, what setting is that?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Wednesday February 06 2019, @02:17PM (4 children)
What would you use instead if a friend requests voice or video chat with you, and the video chat application that the friend uses happens not to be available as a native app for your device's operating system?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @03:15PM
and certainly do not make friends use it
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:21PM
A phone. Zoom is for all OS though isn't it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:23PM (1 child)
Same as I do now.
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(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday February 07 2019, @05:00AM
"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."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:01PM (3 children)
permissions.default.microphone
and
permission.default.camera
Look to be the right ones. Though, I believe they already default to 0 which is off/disabled.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:24PM (2 children)
I don't see those in my version of firefox (for android).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:25PM (1 child)
I can in mine.
Don't upgrade.
I am using V52 Firefox mobile on a galaxy 4.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:46AM
I hate updating but my last device stopped charging (even though I replaced the USB board once, I just can't keep doing that).