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| From | Rich <rich@example.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | [Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying |
| Date | 2019-04-13 01:29 +0000 |
| Organization | My Linux Box |
| Message-ID | <++hfrXAgHVtCSRRSNdZvm+gl@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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<URL:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/firefox-to-block-noisy-auto
playing-video-in-next-release/>
The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
>
> Last year, Chrome introduced changes to try to prevent the persistent
> nuisance that is pages that automatically play noisy videos. Next month,
> Firefox will be following suit; Firefox 66, due on March 19, will
> prevent the automatic playback of any video that contains audio.
>
> Mozilla's plan for Firefox is a great deal simpler and a great deal
> stricter than Chrome's system. In Chrome, Google has a heuristic that
> tries to distinguish between those sites where autoplaying is generally
> welcome (Netflix and YouTube, for example) and those where it isn't
> (those annoying sites that have autoplaying video tucked away in a
> corner to startle you when it starts making unexpected sounds). Firefox
> isn't doing anything like that; by default, any site that tries to play
> video with audio will have that video playback blocked.
>
> ...
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[Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-13 01:29 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-13 18:33 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-13 20:20 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-13 22:21 +0000
Re: [Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 10:03 +0300
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