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by zaarn 2966 days ago
I don't want YouTube to autoplay, most of the time, I'm opening a lot of YT tabs at once and sometimes I need to seek out a specific one I am interested in most.

It would be much nicer if the various plugins I use to control that behaviour wouldn't stop working every 4 months due to another youtube redesign (whether in UI or Backend on the Client).
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bscphil 2966 days ago
The sane behavior would be to not autoplay video in tabs that open in the background. (I thought this was the default behavior in Firefox, but maybe not?) Other than that, the only solution is some kind of heuristic. If the reason someone clicks on the page is to play a video, it should autoplay: the click registers my intent. If the page serves some other purpose (channels on Youtube come to mind), nothing should autoplay.
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ripdog 2966 days ago
Firefox does this by default. Background tabs do not autoplay, but the foreground tab does.
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Macha 2965 days ago
Huh, I thought this was a behaviour YouTube/twitch did manually as it doesn't seem 100% reliable on news sites.
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