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The "pivot to video" would explain why every third article I click from outside my usual haunts has an auto-play video at the top that follows me as I scroll do
by barrkel 9y ago
The "pivot to video" would explain why every third article I click from outside my usual haunts has an auto-play video at the top that follows me as I scroll down the page.
I've reached my limit; I've started blocking video CDNs with my adblocker. If there's a video I really want to watch, I'll use a different browser.
- mrj 9y agoYou can disable html5 auto play with Firefox. It's a godsend.
- jerrycruncher 9y agoIt absolutely is. Setting media.autoplay.enabled to false in about:config will also keep audio and animated gifs from autoplaying. For me, it's the biggest quality of life improvment in web browsing since the advent of reader mode.
- _rpd 9y agoThe Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin for Chrome still works pretty well ... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... The author has stopped maintaining the plugin though because Google is supposedly addressing the issue at the browser level. Edit: This seems to be the recommended fix for Chrome ... Set ... chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy to ... "Document user activation is required."
- davidwitt415 9y agoNeither option works on SI.com, one of the worst/typical autoplay offenders. Hopefully, the Google 2018 fix will really take care of this.