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by sgruetter 3082 days ago
OT: Is there a reliable Firefox to block these annoying Bloomberg auto-play videos?
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vlod 3082 days ago
Mine don't play in FF. I think you can disable this via: media.autoplay.enabled

type about:config in url and set value to false

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frandroid 3082 days ago
I have this set to false and it's pretty annoying. It seems that the same triggers that make auto-play work are used to play regular video. So I always have to fiddle with Youtube to get a video to start, and Vimeo videos don't play at all. I've had to keep from using this flag in Chrome so I have a backup browser for such sites.
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sgruetter 3078 days ago
Thanks, that worked, although YouTube affected, too. Well, better than unexpected auto-play.
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sgruetter 3078 days ago
Update: Does also not-auto-play gifs/gifv on imgur, thus it's not really a solution.
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OrwellianChild 3082 days ago
In Chrome, is this possible?
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delecti 3082 days ago
There's a plugin that disables autoplay.

https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...

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the8472 3082 days ago
install a content blocker, e.g. umatrix, and block media requests?
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