Now if I could only get NetFlix to stop it as well.<p>Is there anyone that actually likes the autoplay when watching Netflix on TV?<p>Update/Note: This is in the Roku app. I'm specifically talking about previews autoplaying while I scroll though different shows on the main navigation...
I hate autoplay so much that probably no one in the whole universe hates it more than me. This is the stupidest human invention ever. </rant><p>I'm really grateful for customizability of firefox. I discovered "media.block-play-until-visible" in about:config some time ago and I hope that they don't have plans of removing that option in the future.
<i>Muted autoplay is still allowed.</i> WTH Mozilla. Just stop. Stop the stupid auto-playing video. Nobody wants it.<p>This announcement almost made my morning. It's frustrating seeing video everywhere when you're just trying to read an article. If I wanted video, I'd turn on my TV.
I've always found it curious that this sort of tech is called "blocking", as if the browser has to proactively prevent websites from reaching into your computer and playing a video or displaying an ad or popping up a window.
On related note... I came across a webpage yesterday with autoplaying video that doesn't respond to the GUI:<p><a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/31/wade-phillips-masterful-super-bowl-tom-brady/" rel="nofollow">https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/31/wade-phillips-masterfu...</a><p>If you click on the video to unmute it, you can't click again on the pause or mute icons to stop it or mute it. This behavior of ignoring your clicks happens in both Chrome and Firefox. Even clicking on Chrome's tab area with the little speaker icon doesn't mute it. To stop it, you can click on the video window's hamburger menu -- or close out the entire tab.<p>I don't know if it's aggressive javascript tricks or a bug in the browsers. It was the first webpage I found where Chrome's speaker icon on the page's tab couldn't mute the audio.
The article shows that user will be able to whitelist sites on the desktop, but what about mobile?<p>My use case is that I use FF on Android as my default web browser. If I turn off media autoplay, I'm 99% happy. However, there are a few sites that I want to autoplay. In fact, my local NPR stream refuses to play if not played via autoplay. So I'm forever toggling the autoplay setting on and off mainly so I can listen to my local NPR station.
This is long overdue. Now if someone could just fix the autoplay setting in Safari so that it actually does what it claims to do.<p>Oh, and also fix the "block pop-ups" feature so that it actually blocks the obnoxious pop-ups that follow you around as you scroll (and often include annoying autoplay videos, demands to "subscribe to our newsletter," etc..)<p>Edit: Wait, "Muted autoplay is still allowed?" Why is it so hard to stamp out the scourge of autoplay? :(
"Muted autoplay is still allowed." Hopefully that will remain configurable, that behavior is still visually annoying and a waste of bandwidth and energy.<p>I've been disabling autoplay in Firefox via about:config since it was available, no audio or video unless I click play. I've never run into a scenario where I've wanted or needed it to be any other way.
> At this time, we’re also working on blocking autoplay for Web Audio content, but have not yet finalized our implementation. We expect to ship with autoplay Web Audio content blocking enabled by default sometime in 2019. We’ll let you know!<p>So you can auto-play a video, muted, and auto-play audio separately? Well that seems like a trivial work-around.
Just a heads up, it also includes blocking timers ringing set on DDG and Google. I found that out the hard way with over-hard boiled eggs two days in a row.
Very good for those annoying news sites. The UI for allowing legitimate sites seems a bit hidden, I wonder if you'll get a request a la notifications.
I don't understand why there isn't a button next to the url bar in the browser that can allow/disallow auto-playing audio and/or video. This should be an easily accessible on/off switch.
66 has been around in the dev release for a while now, and I love this feature. I can finally visit a news sites, and not have a random unrelated article's video with sound (usually off-screen) start playing.
The Brave browser (<a href="https://brave.com" rel="nofollow">https://brave.com</a>) has been doing this for a while. I'd recommend it. It's faster, saves bandwidth and blocks the majority of ads. Only downside is that I have to explicitly let my online bank see my location in order to log in.
:(<p>I have a couple of HTML4 DOM-based games. Looks like I should prepare for gazillion of support requests saying that the sound stopped working in the game.<p>So, what should I do, rewrite everything from scratch in HTML5 and tax CPU/GPU unnecessary.<p>Another instance of ass<i></i><i></i>s ruining the technology for everyone else.
Someone should make a service and browser plugin "boycotttheautolay.org"<p>It will insert a screen covering block "do not do business with XYZ" for any company who's ads autoplay.<p>maybe you can even get money for it if you claim you use deep learning to figure out the contents of the video ads.
been waiting for this since v1.0 ... on the other hand, popup windows appears to have made a come back... my dad clicked a "cat video" link on Facebook (external link) and it was pretty scary (had to end task or click download)
It would be nice if this was an option and I could block muted auto play too. Some websites have so much media that the page takes 5 or more seconds to render when I just want to read the text.
Is there any current way (chromium or firefox) to mute all sites until I specifically ask to unmute a website? There are only 2 websites I use that I want to play audio.
All nice features, but until they have proper profile management (and not just awkward "containers") it's a no-go for anyone who has to access job-related web sites from their personal device. Which on this site is probably most of us. Chrome got this right many years ago. Mozilla refuses.
An unintended consequence of this: sites will use massive animated GIFs instead.<p>Edit: yeah, i should have actually read the headline and article.... whoops