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> video, but not supporting reliable way to stop autoplay It's an almost incredible situation. Firefox and Safari have a setting to stop autoplay, but much of
by musicale 4y ago
> video, but not supporting reliable way to stop autoplay
It's an almost incredible situation. Firefox and Safari have a setting to stop autoplay, but much of the time it doesn't actually work, and Chrome doesn't even seem to have a setting.
It's also amazing how when enough users decide that they hate some obnoxious web site behavior (pop-up windows, autoplaying video, etc.) enough to block it, the web site designer's response isn't "maybe we should be less obnoxious" but "how can we circumvent the user's preferences?"
- permo-w 4y agouser not customer
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- zajio1am 4y agoRecently i found that while basic stop autoplay option in Firefox does not work reliably, if one also sets media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2, it works much better than the default policy. But it seems it is still just a heuristic that blocks some JS play commands, while allows them in some context.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoI'm very curious about this. It absolutely cannot be halting-problem-tricky for a browser to deduce that it is downloading multiple frames of video/audio and simply stop it. The MIME types alone should be almost a complete answer.
- lapcat 4y agoIf I may self-promote, my extension is the best in the business at stopping video autoplay, as far as I can tell. I've been refining this feature for several years. https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/ https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/