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According to the article, it's based on whether it's the "main" object on the page. Size and centeredness both play a role, I'd guess.
by jakob223 11y ago
According to the article, it's based on whether it's the "main" object on the page. Size and centeredness both play a role, I'd guess.
- dredmorbius 11y agoSo, say, a browser plugin which renamed "main" elements to, oh, say, "notmain", would have the effect of killing autoplay. Though for Flash that's already possible. It's HTML5 that's bugging the shit out of me now.
- icebraining 11y agoFor Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... For Firefox, I think you can just set media.autoplay.enabled = false in about:config.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThanks, I'd not seen an HTML5 video blocker previously.