[gernb]

You know that Chrome tried to remove auto-start videos and advertisers just ended up writing their own battery sucking slow canvas based software decoders?

That Firefox is doing this is very much like yesterday's new Facebook URL

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117489

where people complained Firefox screwed up by escalating.

[bilkow]

By default firefox only prevents content with audio from autoplaying, which I can't think of any way to circumvent and it's probably good enough for most people.

[soraminazuki]

> where people complained Firefox screwed up by escalating

I believe that was a single person.