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

From Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: [Link Posting] Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying
Date 2019-04-15 10:03 +0300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2019-04-13, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> Firefox 66, due on March 19, will prevent the automatic playback of any video that contains audio.
>
> Sounds good to me.  I wish they'd block video of all forms.  I'm ocassionally appalled, when working on expensive or low bandwidth connections, to hit a webpage that's aggressively sucking down video advertising.

That’s while using someone else’s machine, you mean?  Otherwise, why do you care about defaults?  No autoplay as an option has been always there.

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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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