Firefox banning noisy video from autoplaying

&gt;&gt;Firefox will also allow muted video to play back automatically.<p>Good lord, they didn&#x27;t go far enough with this. IME, muted video is almost always a waste of bandwidth that I don&#x27;t care to see anyway. Local news sites seem to be the worst with this, where they will autoplay the video muted on the same page as the article. As someone who occasionally operates off of a limited-bandwith connection, I get more-and-more frustrated with the modern web every day. If I&#x27;m clicking on a local news site&#x27;s article, I expect to just read the article. 9 times out of 10, I scroll past a muted video that has tried to play advertisements, and I will be finished reading the article where the video is 30% finished. I&#x27;m sure this option is changeable in about:config (which, besides preventing chrome monopoly is why I use FireFox), but most users will never adjust any of those settings. How much power globally is wasted burning CPU cycles to render this garbage content?

Autoplay is a monstrosity and it seems like a shocking design flaw that it can&#x27;t easily be stopped.<p>For example, Safari&#x27;s &quot;Never Auto-Play&quot; setting simply doesn&#x27;t work.<p>It seems like &lt;canvas&gt; animation should be blockable (e.g. make it so that canvas pixels can&#x27;t be altered without permission) and even old-school html animation should be blockable.<p>Perhaps web sites with utter contempt for their users will decide to render all of their text into a canvas so they can trick you into watching video ads; &quot;in order to view the New York Times, you must enable canvas animation and webassembly so that we can violate your video autoplay setting&quot; - at which point I guess browsers will have to include an AI system that uses some sort of image processing and recognition to block stuff that doesn&#x27;t look like text or static images.

To block all video (both noisy and silent) from autoplaying on Firefox 66 or later:<p>1) Go to about:config<p>2) Set media.autoplay.default to 1<p>3) Set media.autoplay.allow-muted to false<p>4) Set media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed to false<p>This works on both the desktop and Android versions.

Now if we could just block the autoplaying Netflix menu video...

In my opinion, Firefox has regained the crown as the best browser. There really arn&#x27;t that many disadvantages to it while having many benefits.

Autoplaying videos is the new: &#x27;midi-music blarring at you&#x27; from the 90s.<p>Everytime this happens to me on mobile i can&#x27;t decide to chuckle or cry.<p>Without proper adjusted settings and addons no one can surf the web unharmed anymore.<p>The web has become a hostile place.<p>I mean silently playing videos in the background to gain profits from advertisers while costing you your data plan is burning real money. A kind of money transfer, but: unpretty.

Am I the only one to feel that autoplay video should be disabled by default, ESPECIALLY if the video isn&#x27;t even being rendered inside the visible portion of the viewport when it begins playing? I am _sick to death_ of random noise coming from web pages (namely, news articles) and having to try and find the source of it.