On 4/30/26 09:37, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 09:34:12AM -0700, Fred wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a digital subscription to New York Times. (www.nytimes.com). They
>> have numerous video stories that all automatically play which sucks up my
>> monthly data allotment. I have looked through Firefox edit preferences and
>> don't see anything which controls automatic playing. Is there a way to
>> prevent downloading the video unless I click on it?
>

>    Really? Is this a troll account?
>    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

>
This doesn't make any difference. All websites were already blocked.
However, there is this:

about:welcome
about:welcome^privateBrowsingld=1

which are marked allow. If they are deleted or changed to block (and
save changes) firefox puts them back when the page is exited.

Autoplaying is only happening on the nytimes.com site (of the ones I visit).

Any suggestions?

Best regards,
Fred