Message-ID: <670c2b4e@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Firefox update breaks media autoplay setting Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 14 Oct 2024 06:19:27 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 27 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:59359 Robert Riches wrote: > Even with that, YouTube ads play without warning. > > Are there any known workarounds (other than switching to another > browser?) On the system I usually run Firefox on (not Devuan), I don't have the libavcodec library it uses for video playback installed, so it _can't_ play videos at all. I also don't let youtube.com through NoScript at all, and download everything I want to watch for viewing in a separate program. Since youtube.com stopped showing anything at all without Javascript I've been using Invidious instances for searching and reading descriptions. www.genyt.net is another "front-end" that works without Javscript. Some others here: https://codeberg.org/skynet2982/awesome-alternative-front-ends#user-content-youtube I'm sure there are ways to hide libavcodec from Firefox while still keeping it installed for other software, but I'm not sure what would be the easiest one. I never got around to doing that in Devuan myself. I guess you're probably not willing to sacrifice all in-browser video playback anyway, though maybe switching to one of those front-ends or separate "apps" might be good enough. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#