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[Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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
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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:
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>  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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