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Firefox has an option to turn autoplay (sound and video) off for those ads that get past ublock origin.
by catlikesshrimp 2y ago
Firefox has an option to turn autoplay (sound and video) off for those ads that get past ublock origin.
- schiffern 2y agouBlock Origin can also block media elements larger than X MB (I use 8 MB so it still loads large images), preventing the video from loading in the first place. Disabling autoplay prevents it from playing, but the video is still downloaded.
- dns_snek 2y agoDoes this actually work? Most videos on the internet aren't loaded as one large file, but as sequence of short few-second long chunks.
- pornel 2y agoAds work around lack of autoplay by loading massive image filmstrips containing video frames (often split across hundreds of image files), and animating that in JS or CSS. This has all the annoyance of autoplay, with even worse bandwidth and memory usage.