[datamoshr]

Seriously Bloomberg, automatically playing a video? I just woke up my wife by accident thanks to your poor UX.

I like the idea of more democratic film-making but am apprehensive about this as it seems just like crypto is hitting fever pitch and people are trying to make it fit in every paradigm they can think of

[schmookeeg]

I use a Chrome plugin called "HTML5 Content Blocker" which allows me to selectively block JS, CSS, Images, Objects, or Media.

I generally run with only the "Media" switch on, and I haven't seen autoplayed videos in an age. They annoy me mightily.

[aibara]

If media.autoplay.enabled is set to false (is that the default these days?), it does not automatically play with Firefox.

[anitil]

Thanks! I have no idea why this would ever default to true.

[datamoshr]

I had no idea. Thanks so much for showing me this.

[martinko]

Wow, thanks for this one

[lithos]

Well in case of DRM and inventory tracking it's a good implementation.

I was not even remotely disappointed when that's not what they were using it for. And instead just making another tulip bulbs fiat currency.

[jaryd]

Anyone know of any extensions that automatically (and reliably) quash auto-play videos or automatically mute them?

[mintplant]

This one automatically mutes new tabs until you explicitly unmute them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-mute/

[teddyh]

I prefer Advanced MuteList:

Advanced Mute Links (MuteLinks fork) makes use of the Firefox's built-in mute tab functionality and automatically mutes a tab based on its URL.

Every time a new tab loads or a tab URL changes, Advanced MuteLinks will check the URL and if it matches a link or criteria of the Blacklist, Whitelist the tab will be muted, in case a tab is muted and its URL changes to one not on the Blacklist the tab will be un-muted.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/advanced-mute...

[combatentropy]

I just don't let JavaScript run by default. In Chrome I just went into preferences and flipped the switch. Now I have to turn it on site by site, which is a little annoying. But once it's on for a domain, it's on forever, unless I turn it off again.

JavaScript not only runs things, it's what most sites use to bulk themselves up. That is to say, if a site chooses to embed advertising, it doesn't embed all the CSS, JavaScript, images, videos, iframes, and so on. Instead it just adds a script tag or two. Then that script tag, once it runs, goes out and fetches more JavaScript, stylesheets, images and videos.

In other words, turning off JavaScript not only squashes pop-ups and autoplaying videos, it reduces the size of the page by 90%.

[mynewtb]

You might love umatrix, give it a try!

[blhack]

I've been using a combination of automute (chrome) and scriptblock (also chrome) to make browsing the web tolerable again.

The first takes care of anything autoplaying on a whitelisted domain, and the second allows me to whitelist the javascript that plays the videos.

[Fnoord]

1) NoScript

2) Put sound off (F10 on MBP)

I go for option 2. Option 1 leads to an annoying browsing experience (if you go for option 1, all the power to you). Option 2 just means you only have sound on when you need it to.

Bonus points: gf can't troll me with Spotify.

[lithos]

Been using no script for about a year and it's amazing.

[pcmaffey]

I thought I saw this was built into Safari with the new High Sierra update. Haven't dl'ed yet.

[QAPereo]

uMatrix can just let you block it all by default and set your own permissions.

[murukesh_s]

This is so annoying I always have volume set to 0 or a headphone plugged in..

[LightsTech]

We are working on a similar project to democratize original film making. If interested, please see an introduction at https://www.lights.tech.