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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
by 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 agoThis. 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 agoI want to block anything that looks like autoplaying video.
- throwaway48476 2y agoThis also brings the fastest computers to their knees because it bypasses hardware acceleration.
- apetrov 2y agoYes, it was the technique but many years ago, like 2015.