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I've been using the Firefox 69 beta since it came out, and with auto-playing audio and video set to blocked, some sites still somehow manage to auto-start muted
by RussianCow 7y ago
I've been using the Firefox 69 beta since it came out, and with auto-playing audio and video set to blocked, some sites still somehow manage to auto-start muted videos. Is this a bug I should report, or is there some exception that websites are taking advantage of (like starting the video via an event handler like onscroll)?
- floatingatoll 7y agoYes, it’s probably a bug you should report.
- grezql 7y agomaybe it should be blocked by default, then one can "whitelist" domain. My fingers are itching to ban some sites... such as cnn.com, dailymailco.uk
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agodailymail.co.uk is already banned in my house for other reasons.
- dev_dull 7y agoWhy?
- cpeterso 7y agoIf you know of specific sites that sidestep auto-play blocking, that would be worth reporting. I think I saw similar behavior on the Yahoo News site. I think Yahoo News was loading new article content into the same page (like Turbolinks does) instead of navigating to a new page. Clicking links becomes the user action that allows video playback for the current page and that permission is retained across articles because the browser is not navigating away to new pages. Just a theory...
- bhaile 7y agoI had to set this value in about:config media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed;false Now, no video auto-plays when I interact on the page.