This comment was downvoted at the time I'm replying to it, but it's honestly the only reasonable objection here. The _only_ way to block autoplaying video is t

This comment was downvoted at the time I'm replying to it, but it's honestly the only reasonable objection here. The _only_ way to block autoplaying video is to block all animation, which means all of: - animated GIFs - nearly all JavaScript - CSS animation - partial rendering (showing the top part of a page before the entire page is done downloading) Everyone else calling for just blocking animated GIFs and canvas is just going to be hit by even more CPU and bandwidth intensive workarounds.