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How can I stop autoplaying video? What I want is to: - mute the sound - prevent autoplaying - prevent video download consume my internet quota.

• SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
  For Firefox: About:Config setting media.autoplay.enabled to false. For Chrome: Chrome://flags set autoplay policy to "Document user activation is required". I know that this breaks animated .gifs in Firefox, though you can get them to animate by viewing the image info (right-click menu). That's rarely a big loss anyway.
  • saagarjha 9y ago
    Safari 11 has this behavior as the default.
  • f1nch3r 9y ago
    The Chrome trick may work for some sites but not others, most notably CNN.
• sleepychu 9y ago
  With uMatrix I was able to read the article without loading any of the external cruft, it does add some cognitive overhead to browsing sites with a lot of external dependencies