[squarefoot]

I think this Soylent News article summarizes the situation pretty well.

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/17/028245

tl;dr: the real one is Ublock Origin, get it here: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

From the same author I would also suggest uMatrix, sort of a NoScript on steroids which allows a much finer filtering literally ripping pages of a great deal of their junk more selectively, but be aware that it requires "training" (telling it this can be loaded, that cannot) which for some non technical people could be annoying.

[nasredin]

Nope.

Ublock & umatrix still don't block autoplaying videos. You should still use NoScript.

IMHO if you push small cosmetic changes in the UI in every update, like Gorhill does, there's a problem.

He has a poor attitide IMHO.

[makecheck]

So you’re saying that someone investing tons of free time in software that greatly benefits countless people, and then gives it away for free, has problems because of a minor update you don’t like and have absolutely zero right to complain about?

[bpierre]

Firefox does block auto playing videos and asks the user to explicitly allow it, in the same way access to the webcam / mic / location / notifications is managed.

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-users-finally-get-option-t...