Read the comment section on the article for some discussion on this. Firefox does allow users to opt-in to inaudible autoplay video blocking but it’s not the de

Read the comment section on the article for some discussion on this. Firefox does allow users to opt-in to inaudible autoplay video blocking but it’s not the default. The reasoning is that advertisers can approximate video with canvas tags, gifs, or just swapping out images really fast, defeating the point and needlessly burning more CPU/bandwidth. But for users that care you can still opt-in to this behavior and presumably few enough people do this that the workarounds aren’t widespread. (The key difference seems to be that playing audio has a clear path that’s straightforward to block but “video” can be approximated by any webpage interactivity making it harder to lock down)