[gavinsyancey]

Firefox blocks auto playing videos with sound by default. And you can also configure it to block all autoplay or or allow it globally, or per-website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

[donio]

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/block-autoplay has some more additional information in particular about the media.autoplay.blocking_policy pref which allows restoring the older behavior of the play intent not being sticky.

[Nursie]

Which is great for most stuff, but doesn't seem to stop facebook 'reels' from animating. They must do some trickery like loading a short animated image as a 'teaser' before rendering the actual video on click.

[kvemkon]

Using this since I can remember. But noticed another issue and still searching how to disable the video cache at all until I start to play the video and to limit it to 2-5 seconds (or 1 MB) during playing, though no chance so far.

[archargelod]

For youtube there is a "YouTube no Buffer"[0] extension that does precisely this - stops videos from autoplaying and buffering when you open a link.

I have this plugin, Leechblock and ublock filters (blocking any mention of shorts from the site) to make yt less addicting. And it kinda works.

0 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-bu...

[kvemkon]

And just another issue since few months: youtube page auto-reloads/replaces itself since few seconds after opening (even if the tab is not active). The title gets replaced from the original language into English auto-translation (EN is default for browser), but I'd like to see video titles in the original language.

[bad_user]

The Brave browser also has a setting in “Privacy and Security” -> “Site and shields settings” -> “Additional permissions” -> “Autoplay”

You can block globally or per website.

[wodenokoto]

Doesn’t YouTube technically autoplay? You click a link, change page and url and a video starts playing

[EduardoBautista]

Video autoplay is usually allowed on a whitelist of URLs determined by the browser vendor, if I recall correctly.

YouTube is always on those whitelists.

[curtisblaine]

I can't try it at the moment, but I'm not sure the page is actually reloaded. I suspect YouTube is an SPA and, when you click, the url change event is captured by a router and the content of the page is merely replaced.