[cosmic_cheese]

Part of that comes down to the ad industry engineering their way around user video playback controls. I’ve heard of them even doing things like displaying video ads as sequences of static image files swapped out with JS.

[throwaway48476]

This also brings the fastest computers to their knees because it bypasses hardware acceleration.

[apetrov]

Yes, it was the technique but many years ago, like 2015.

[omolobo]

This. It's not that the Firefox is ignoring your video auto-play settings, it's that it isn't video, courtesy of the industry's greed and lack of any respect for people.

[musicale]

I want to block anything that looks like autoplaying video.