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It's frustrating how sites just ignore or circumvent this setting. Some sites just pretend this option doesn't exist and their video player breaks. This setting
by alpaca128 5y ago
It's frustrating how sites just ignore or circumvent this setting. Some sites just pretend this option doesn't exist and their video player breaks.
This setting helps a little but never worked 100% for me.
On YouTube I always open a video in a new tab. For some reason that prevents autoplay.
It would be pretty nice to have a setting that not only reliably blocks autoplay of videos but also animated gifs. Most of the time they're just distracting.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y agoI missed using FlashBlock (Firebird extension) back when Shockwave/Flash is popular. FlashBlock did what it said and block all Flash video in the page until I click the element to load that Flash object and it will play the video. Back then, there is no escaping with this extension, it is relentless and very good at it. Now, browsers bastardized the version of FlashBlock and implemented this shitty approach with HTML5 autoplay which sometime work but never did in the same level as FlashBlock. We need HTML5Block extension (there are one extension but it is no longer maintained) that can do the same level as FlashBlock.