On 5/1/26 09:20, Ryan Thomas wrote:
>> This doesn't make any difference. All websites were already blocked.
>> Autoplaying is only happening on the nytimes.com site (of the ones I visit).
>> Any suggestions?
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> Fred,
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> I found this blog post + discussion:
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> https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxMediaAutoplaySettingsIV
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873169
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> Sounds like there are more complex autoplay settings under the hood as well, overriding this behavior once you have interacted with a tab: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/block-autoplay
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> At a quick glance, I didn't really make sense of it.
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> Alternatively, you might be interested in this feature of uBlock Origin, which allows media elements over a size you can set to be blocked by default:
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> https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements
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> Seems like many have had to resort to that. It might not be a one click to play on the element itself, but there should be a relatively simple workflow to toggle it off in uBlock's interface as needed.
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> Best,
>
> ~rts
Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the help. I am going to have to study this for a while. As
you say it is somewhat complex. The only sites I visit with movies are
nytimes.com and youtube and youtube doesn't autoplay.

Best regards,
Fred