[N_trglctc_joe]

Not at all, and autoplay is way too difficult to completely prevent.

Even on Firefox with media.autoplay.default set to 1, noscript, and UBO some sites still play video without my interaction. News sites are the worst about it; I'm considering switching some of my web usage to a text-only browser.

[edit] After perusing the comments of the article, I took the advice of "ryanja" and also set the following to false in about:config, and it seems to have been effective.

media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages

media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed

media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground