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> between every paragraph is an ad and a video fixed to the top/bottom following you as you scroll and they change once the video ends And of course Chrome, Fi

> between every paragraph is an ad and a video fixed to the top/bottom following you as you scroll and they change once the video ends And of course Chrome, Firefox, and Safari don't provide a reliable way to stop those obnoxious auto-playing videos.

stuaxo 2y ago
Readable view in Firefox is pretty reliable and builtin.
- musicale 2y ago
  I wish it worked on more sites.
cosmic_cheese 2y ago
Part of that comes down to the ad industry engineering their way around user video playback controls. I’ve heard of them even doing things like displaying video ads as sequences of static image files swapped out with JS.
- omolobo 2y ago
  This. It's not that the Firefox is ignoring your video auto-play settings, it's that it isn't video, courtesy of the industry's greed and lack of any respect for people.
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  - musicale 2y ago
    I want to block anything that looks like autoplaying video.
- throwaway48476 2y ago
  This also brings the fastest computers to their knees because it bypasses hardware acceleration.
- apetrov 2y ago
  Yes, it was the technique but many years ago, like 2015.
pessimizer 2y ago
I somehow managed to do it completely and flawlessly in Firefox after a day of effort and sheer hate for the fact that checking the box to keep videos from autoplaying didn't keep any videos from autoplaying. I've now forgotten how I did it and I'm afraid to change any config settings. I think I recall some diffing utility for firefox settings that I could hopefully use to figure out what I did. It burns me up that the fact that I blocked autoplay reliably means that Firefox could do it, they just don't want to. edit: I might have gotten the settings from a blog, but I have a strong feeling they might have been from combing the firefox bugtracker.
- cpeterso 2y ago
  Firefox is supposed to block autoplay of videos that have audio unless the user has clicked to play a video on the same page. There is definitely an arms race for ads that find holes in the autoplay heuristics. You might try setting the about:config settings “media.autoplay.default” to 5 and/or “media.autoplay.blocking_policy” to 2: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a785b4488af02cca062ec7c2c/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml#10434 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a78... https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a785b4488af02cca062ec7c2c/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml#10421 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a78... If you think there is a Firefox bug, you can file a bug report and link it to this autoplay bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376321 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376321
  - musicale 2y ago
    > Firefox is supposed to block autoplay of videos that have audio. I want a reliable way to block autoplay of all videos, whether or not they have audio.
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stuaxo 2y ago

Readable view in Firefox is pretty reliable and builtin.

musicale 2y ago
I wish it worked on more sites.

cosmic_cheese 2y ago

Part of that comes down to the ad industry engineering their way around user video playback controls. I’ve heard of them even doing things like displaying video ads as sequences of static image files swapped out with JS.

omolobo 2y ago
This. It's not that the Firefox is ignoring your video auto-play settings, it's that it isn't video, courtesy of the industry's greed and lack of any respect for people.
- deleted 2y ago
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- musicale 2y ago
  I want to block anything that looks like autoplaying video.
throwaway48476 2y ago
This also brings the fastest computers to their knees because it bypasses hardware acceleration.
apetrov 2y ago
Yes, it was the technique but many years ago, like 2015.

pessimizer 2y ago

I somehow managed to do it completely and flawlessly in Firefox after a day of effort and sheer hate for the fact that checking the box to keep videos from autoplaying didn't keep any videos from autoplaying. I've now forgotten how I did it and I'm afraid to change any config settings. I think I recall some diffing utility for firefox settings that I could hopefully use to figure out what I did. It burns me up that the fact that I blocked autoplay reliably means that Firefox could do it, they just don't want to. edit: I might have gotten the settings from a blog, but I have a strong feeling they might have been from combing the firefox bugtracker.

cpeterso 2y ago
Firefox is supposed to block autoplay of videos that have audio unless the user has clicked to play a video on the same page. There is definitely an arms race for ads that find holes in the autoplay heuristics. You might try setting the about:config settings “media.autoplay.default” to 5 and/or “media.autoplay.blocking_policy” to 2: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a785b4488af02cca062ec7c2c/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml#10434 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a78... https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a785b4488af02cca062ec7c2c/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml#10421 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a78... If you think there is a Firefox bug, you can file a bug report and link it to this autoplay bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376321 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376321
- musicale 2y ago
  > Firefox is supposed to block autoplay of videos that have audio. I want a reliable way to block autoplay of all videos, whether or not they have audio.
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