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Facebook is IMHO the biggest offender in that category, dozens of "in your face" videos no one asked explicitly for... Luckily, there's a setting if you can be bothered - and luckily, for many marketing departments around the world many can't... "Look, how many views our videos have on FB"...
Facebook is IMHO the biggest offender in that category, dozens of "in your face" videos no one asked explicitly for... Luckily, there's a setting if you can be bothered - and luckily, for many marketing departments around the world many can't... "Look, how many views our videos have on FB"...
Excuse me.
firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false additionally the dom.audiochannel.mutedByDefault and media.default_volume settings may also be useful if you want slightly different behavior. If you want a more blunt tool you can also use content blockers to block media content until you opt into it for a particular site. > I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or…
Did that buy youtube is still on autoplay.
So, in fact, while e.g. Firefox has a mute button for each tab, I also wish it had an individual mute button for each and element.
I really dislike auto-playing audio and video as well, for all the reasons you mentioned, but also for a less logical reason: it just makes it feel like the browser isn't on your side. If a site is automatically playing audio or a video advert, its design is not in the user's interest, so in that situation your software has to choose whose side to take. I just want and expect the software I have installed on my compu…
Honestly, I strongly believe this should be default for all software.
Worst thing is that many of these video ads can not be caught by Adblock Plus...
Facebook is IMHO the biggest offender in that category, dozens of "in your face" videos no one asked explicitly for... Luckily, there's a setting if you can be bothered - and luckily, for many marketing departments around the world many can't... "Look, how many views our videos have on FB"...
For example, GIFV is a format that uses auto-playing videos to replace the GIF, and by doing so cuts down on Internet bandwidth usage. I'd suggest that's a legitimate use for auto-playing videos.
I only really get annoyed with auto-playing videos when I hear the sound from them, so perhaps the fix should be targeted in this area. It may cause problems for things like YouTube playlists, so I don't think the fix is as simple as 'mute them all by default', but whatever the fix is should rely on some form of user control.
I wrote https://github.com/ludios/mute-new-tabs and I am now happier with a quiet Chrome. The idea is to mute all new tabs and unmute them only when you interact with an in-page volume control (or manually unmute via the tab icon/context menu). This solves only the sound problem though, not the data consumption.
firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false additionally the dom.audiochannel.mutedByDefault and media.default_volume settings may also be useful if you want slightly different behavior. If you want a more blunt tool you can also use content blockers to block media content until you opt into it for a particular site. > I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or…
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoplay-togg...