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I agree that that is the crux of the matter, but I'm not sure that the two sides are irreconcilable. Google and site owners want to do targeted ads. I'm not s

I agree that that is the crux of the matter, but I'm not sure that the two sides are irreconcilable. Google and site owners want to do targeted ads. I'm not sure that users hate targeted ads specifically. I, for one, am not a site owner myself, but I'm sympathetic enough to their need for revenue that I'm OK with targeted ads. I hate stuff like auto-play video (and am thrilled that Firefox has well and truly conquered that issue) and I'm pissed that many companies sell or leak my data but I'm not looking to reject targeted ads outright.

jamesdwilson 7y ago
YouTube autoplays just fine in firefox. What did you mean?
- vmateixeira 7y ago
  And that's exactly the problem.. it used to be very hard to block just a few weeks ago.
  - jamesdwilson 7y ago
    Sorry, what do you mean? How can I block autoplaying yt vids in firefox?
    - Hitton 7y ago
      I use "Enhacer for Youtube" extension.
      - vmateixeira 7y ago
        Yes, these kind of extensions just used to take advantage of the existing properties.
    - vmateixeira 7y ago
      You could get to it through about:config (so.. a little difficult for the common user to reach) media.autoplay.enabled media.autoplay.allow-muted They then changed to media.autoplay.default media.autoplay.block-webaudio media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed And removed the previous parameters, which caused the videos to start playing automatically again, until you would configure the new properties (again, only though about:config). Finally, they're now providing a menu option for achieving the same, which deserves to be applauded.
- tomComb 7y ago
  Yes, I have allowed autoplay on the video sites, but it is now click-to-enable on all those others sites that are just using it for ads. Go to about:config in Firefox, and change "media.autoplay.allow-muted" to false. Chrome has shut down auto-play on any video with sound (excepting video specific sites) and they have a flag "Autoplay policy" which was partially successful, but not as effective as the blocking in Firefox.
drdaeman 7y ago
> Firefox has well and truly conquered that issue Don't worry, advertisers will catch up soon, and just bundle ads with JS-based H.264 decoder that renders to <canvas>.

jamesdwilson 7y ago

YouTube autoplays just fine in firefox. What did you mean?

vmateixeira 7y ago
And that's exactly the problem.. it used to be very hard to block just a few weeks ago.
- jamesdwilson 7y ago
  Sorry, what do you mean? How can I block autoplaying yt vids in firefox?
  - Hitton 7y ago
    I use "Enhacer for Youtube" extension.
    - vmateixeira 7y ago
      Yes, these kind of extensions just used to take advantage of the existing properties.
  - vmateixeira 7y ago
    You could get to it through about:config (so.. a little difficult for the common user to reach) media.autoplay.enabled media.autoplay.allow-muted They then changed to media.autoplay.default media.autoplay.block-webaudio media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed And removed the previous parameters, which caused the videos to start playing automatically again, until you would configure the new properties (again, only though about:config). Finally, they're now providing a menu option for achieving the same, which deserves to be applauded.
tomComb 7y ago
Yes, I have allowed autoplay on the video sites, but it is now click-to-enable on all those others sites that are just using it for ads. Go to about:config in Firefox, and change "media.autoplay.allow-muted" to false. Chrome has shut down auto-play on any video with sound (excepting video specific sites) and they have a flag "Autoplay policy" which was partially successful, but not as effective as the blocking in Firefox.

drdaeman 7y ago

> Firefox has well and truly conquered that issue Don't worry, advertisers will catch up soon, and just bundle ads with JS-based H.264 decoder that renders to <canvas>.