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I think there is a new way to bypass this; FF recently missed an autoplay video on Bloomberg (?). Arms race as usual.

• miscPerson 7y ago
  Isn’t that “hacking” in the cyber crime sense? I know Bloomberg et al don’t appreciate my attempting to bypass their technical controls and cause undesired effects on their systems, and would likely file a criminal complaint. Why is it legal for advertisers to write code which is meant to bypass a system control and exceed their authorization? I think we need a browser that automates CFAA complaints to the FBI when a company engages in behavior that would be illegal for an individual — such as hacking your audio. I believe at the point where a company writes code with the explicit purpose of bypassing your control of the computer, eg autoplaying a video despite technical measures being taken to prohibit that behavior, it constitutes a breach of the CFAA.
• paulmd 7y ago
  You can't autostart it when the page loads anymore, but you can autostart it as soon as the user interacts with the page in any way (including scroll)
  • grenoire 7y ago
    My settings for these are not the defaults, I didn't get the option to block autoplays on the domain menu.