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sgruetter | 8 years ago

OT: Is there a reliable Firefox to block these annoying Bloomberg auto-play videos?

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vlod|8 years ago

Mine don't play in FF. I think you can disable this via: media.autoplay.enabled

type about:config in url and set value to false

I have this set to false and it's pretty annoying. It seems that the same triggers that make auto-play work are used to play regular video. So I always have to fiddle with Youtube to get a video to start, and Vimeo videos don't play at all. I've had to keep from using this flag in Chrome so I have a backup browser for such sites.

sgruetter|8 years ago

Thanks, that worked, although YouTube affected, too. Well, better than unexpected auto-play.

OrwellianChild|8 years ago

In Chrome, is this possible?

delecti|8 years ago

There's a plugin that disables autoplay.

https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...

the8472|8 years ago

install a content blocker, e.g. umatrix, and block media requests?

unknown|8 years ago

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