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What is the state-of-the art way to block those annoying autoplay videos? I have previously enabled click-to-play for flash, but now that videos have moved to
by drewg123 10y ago
What is the state-of-the art way to block those annoying autoplay videos?
I have previously enabled click-to-play for flash, but now that videos have moved to html5, that no longer works. So then I installed the "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" chrome extension, which worked for a while, but seems to be less and less effective these days. Then I resorted to picking site elements with Ublock. Amazingly, this didn't work today for this Fortune article. I finally had to just block their CDN (brightcove) via Privacy Badger.
Surely there must be a better way. This is just getting insane.
- mikejarema 10y agoI use Firefox and have disabled autoplaying across the board by going to about:config and setting media.autoplay.enabled to false. Unfortunately it doesn't offer exceptions at all (eg. by domain), so you'll need to click-to-start media on every site. IMO it's worth that minor effort.
- elorant 10y agoHave you tried to disable JavaScript? That might work. There are even add-ons that let you do with one click.
- jwilk 10y agoThen you get an empty page... Disabling JS and CSS kinda works, if you don't mind useless images that take the whole screen. Here's an archived copy, which also works with JS disabled: https://archive.fo/JwNn6 https://archive.fo/JwNn6