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  Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Boris <Boris@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-12 17:29 +0000
    Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-08-12 19:49 +0200
      Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Boris <Boris@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-12 18:33 +0000
    Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-12 11:19 -0700
      Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Boris <Boris@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-12 18:51 +0000
    Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-12 19:56 +0100
      Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Boris <Boris@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-12 19:28 +0000
        Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-12 20:46 +0100
          Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-12 14:36 -0700
    Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-08-13 19:43 +1000
      Re: Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos Boris <Boris@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-13 16:00 +0000

#18022 — Permanently Mute Automatic Audio on Videos

Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate 
Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to 
play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser 
tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do this everytime such an add or video 
appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.

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#18023

Op 12-08-2026 om 19:29 schreef Boris:
> Firefox v. 149.0.2
> 
> If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
> 
> Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate 
> Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to 
> play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser 
> tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do this everytime such an add or video 
> appears.
> 
> Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
> 
> Thanks.

A URL would have been nice, but having said that, uBlock Origin blocks
most of these annoyances, like for instance the popup videos on zdnet.

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#18025

dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> wrote in news:0aoukm-dnj.ln1@spock.lan:

> Op 12-08-2026 om 19:29 schreef Boris:
>> Firefox v. 149.0.2
>> 
>> If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
>> 
>> Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for
>> Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio
>> automatically begins to play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is
>> to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do
>> this everytime such an add or video appears.
>> 
>> Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
>> 
>> Thanks.
> 
> A URL would have been nice, but having said that, uBlock Origin blocks
> most of these annoyances, like for instance the popup videos on zdnet.

Thanks for the reply.  I would have provided a URL, but there were many,
didn't seem to matter what URL.  At any rate, I do have uBlockOrigin
enabled, but it didn't stop the annoyance.  I toggled uBlockOrigin on and
off many time, restarting Firefox each time, and now uBlockOrigin is doing
it's job. 

(I did have uBlockOrigin disabled a while ago because it was blocking
previously unblocked sites.) 

I am going to look into Nobody's response.

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#18024

On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:29:58 -0000 (UTC), Boris
<Boris@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>Firefox v. 149.0.2
>
>If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
>
>Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate 
>Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to 
>play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser 
>tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do this everytime such an add or video 
>appears.
>
>Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
>
>Thanks.

about:config... and promise to be A Good Boy.

Set this to false: <media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages>

Set this to true: <media.autoplay.block-event.enabled>

Set value to '1': <media.autoplay.blocking_policy>

Set value to '5': <media.autoplay.default>

With those last two, make sure you click the 'tick' mark after
altering each value.

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#18026

Nobody <jock@soccer.com> wrote in news:0udp7l9omc4v63n0ki2endtikbelmgl79v@
4ax.com:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:29:58 -0000 (UTC), Boris
> <Boris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>Firefox v. 149.0.2
>>
>>If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
>>
>>Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for 
> Allstate 
>>Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically 
> begins to 
>>play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the 
> browser 
>>tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do this everytime such an add or 
> video 
>>appears.
>>
>>Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
>>
>>Thanks.
> 
> about:config... and promise to be A Good Boy.
> 
> Set this to false: <media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages>
> 
> Set this to true: <media.autoplay.block-event.enabled>
> 
> Set value to '1': <media.autoplay.blocking_policy>
> 
> Set value to '5': <media.autoplay.default>
> 
> With those last two, make sure you click the 'tick' mark after
> altering each value.

I made the changes you provided, and I turned uBlock Origin off.  It 
worked.
Thanks.

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#18028

Boris wrote:

> Firefox v. 149.0.2

153.0.4 here but don't think settings have changed for a couple of years

> If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
> 
> Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate
> Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to
> play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser
> tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do this everytime such an add or video
> appears.
> 
> Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
Within Tools > Settings > Permissions & Data > Autoplay
set the Default for all websites droplist
to either block audio or block both

What I then do is add an exception for youtube.com, to allow both

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#18029

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in
news:ne3trkFq50U1@mid.individual.net: 

> Boris wrote:
> 
>> Firefox v. 149.0.2
> 
> 153.0.4 here but don't think settings have changed for a couple of years
> 
>> If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
>> 
>> Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for
>> Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio
>> automatically begins to play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is
>> to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do
>> this everytime such an add or video appears.
>> 
>> Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
> Within Tools > Settings > Permissions & Data > Autoplay
> set the Default for all websites droplist
> to either block audio or block both
> 
> What I then do is add an exception for youtube.com, to allow both

My version of Firefox does not have Permissions and Data.  But, if I type
Permissions in the Settings search box, I'm presented with a list of
functions that can be enabled/disabled, such as microphone, location,
speaker, ... and autoplay.  Autoplay shows that I had already blocked all
autoplay audio and video for all websites, but it didn't behave.  

Actually, I hadn't blocked this.  I didn't even know such a setting
existed.  It must have been default, or standard for "Updates disabled by
your organization" installs.  By the way, I'm not with an organization,
but I made this setting because I got tired of constant useless updates. 

Odd.

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#18030

Boris wrote:

> Actually, I hadn't blocked this.  I didn't even know such a setting
> existed.  It must have been default

If you made the settings changes from Jock within about:config, those 
are another route to the same thing ... theoretically the tools/settings 
route is easier, but so well buried it took me a few minutes to describe 
them, even knowing they were there somewhere ...

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#18032

On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:46:36 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

>Boris wrote:
>
>> Actually, I hadn't blocked this.  I didn't even know such a setting
>> existed.  It must have been default
>
>If you made the settings changes from Jock within about:config, those 
>are another route to the same thing ... theoretically the tools/settings 
>route is easier, but so well buried it took me a few minutes to describe 
>them, even knowing they were there somewhere ...
>
>

To be truthful, I didn't know (or mebbe didn't remember) the Settings
route... and even with your instructions, I couldn't figure out
immediately what to 'do' in Autoplay.  I was expecting a radio-button
choice and mebbe that was the method previously instead of the
pulldown.

Just now, testing in 153.0.4 by reverting those four to defaults did
indeed change the reading in Settings but to 'Block Audio'.

I've now re-set to my advice... which dates from vague recall of
several instances of users asking on this group and I followed the
shared hints with success.

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#18033

On 13/08/2026 3:29 am, Boris wrote:
> Firefox v. 149.0.2
> 
> If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
> 
> Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate
> Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to
> play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser
> tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do this everytime such an add or video
> appears.
> 
> Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Boris, do you normally play music or films on your Computer??

I don't .... so I have the Audio Playback Level ('Speakers' down in the 
bottom right of my screen near the Clock) set to ZERO so the web-sites 
can send me whatever sounds they want but I hear nothing .... until *I* 
turn it up when I want to listen to something .... whether that 
'something' be Music/Video I have on my Hard-drive or something on the 
Net or whatever!!
-- 
Daniel70

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#18036

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
news:115k3k3$1hdua$1@dont-email.me: 

> On 13/08/2026 3:29 am, Boris wrote:
>> Firefox v. 149.0.2
>> 
>> If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.
>> 
>> Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for
>> Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio
>> automatically begins to play.  The only way I can turn the audio off is
>> to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab.  I have to do
>> this everytime such an add or video appears.
>> 
>> Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
> Boris, do you normally play music or films on your Computer??

No, 99% of the time, I don't.  

> 
> I don't .... so I have the Audio Playback Level ('Speakers' down in the 
> bottom right of my screen near the Clock) set to ZERO so the web-sites 
> can send me whatever sounds they want but I hear nothing .... until *I* 
> turn it up when I want to listen to something .... whether that 
> 'something' be Music/Video I have on my Hard-drive or something on the 
> Net or whatever!!

Good idea.  Simple and effective.

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