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Indeed am seeing more and more sites that somehow get their videos to autoplay even though I have that explicitly disabled in Firefox settings. I thought user a
by Santosh83 6y ago
Indeed am seeing more and more sites that somehow get their videos to autoplay even though I have that explicitly disabled in Firefox settings. I thought user agents had ultimate control over 'mere bytes' sent over the wire but somehow these sites manage to trick the browser and override user preferences.
- ffpip 6y agoIf a <video> tag is attached to the Video, Firefox stops it. Sites are loading videos in frames (looking at you Reddit) and in GIFs (news sites)
- jagged-chisel 6y agoWouldn't the frame also be a valid HTML page, with a <video> tag? Perhaps I'm mistaken about how things are working these days, so I'd appreciate some learnin'.