I wish it had been ALL video, audible or not.
There are extensions that do that.
Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
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#12Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#13I wish it had been ALL video, audible or not.
Would you rather websites keep using animated GIFs instead? Because I think this is why GIFs are still in active use despite being a terrible format in terms of compression/bandwidth: browsers impose all of these limitations on video, which don't apply to GIFs because they're images.
I want no auto-play video regardless of format. Am I really in the minority?
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#14I wish it had been ALL video, audible or not.
Would you rather websites keep using animated GIFs instead? Because I think this is why GIFs are still in active use despite being a terrible format in terms of compression/bandwidth: browsers impose all of these limitations on video, which don't apply to GIFs because they're images.
Nothing requires a browser to auto-play animated GIFs.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you rather websites keep using animated GIFs instead? Because I think this is why GIFs are still in active use despite being a terrible format in terms of compression/bandwidth: browsers impose all of these limitations on video, which don't apply to GIFs because they're images.
Nothing requires a browser to auto-play animated GIFs.
If you back that off it breaks tons of sites and the really annoying ones move to a hundred jpegs. And trying to stop that is not going to be easy.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#16Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you rather websites keep using animated GIFs instead? Because I think this is why GIFs are still in active use despite being a terrible format in terms of compression/bandwidth: browsers impose all of these limitations on video, which don't apply to GIFs because they're images.
Nothing requires a browser to auto-play animated GIFs.
No, but animated GIFs have been standard in browsers for so long that I think you'd end up breaking lots of things. Loading spinners, for example, are often GIFs. Maybe you'd prefer if those were static, but suspect many users would think a website and/or their browser was broken if they didn't move.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#18I wish it had been ALL video, audible or not.
That would result in all those videos getting replaced with gifs and wasting more resources.
What if I don't care about advertiser efficiency and just want to read a webpage with static content (without video popups and audio unasked for).
(Yes I know such sites/tricks may increase my download traffic and brower CPU usage, etc, but I would just stop using such sites then, as I do now)
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#19Worth reading through the comment section…
Thanks for recommending that. It’s fascinating seeing the diversity of opinions amongst commenters. Also Firefox’s reasoning behind not blocking inaudible video was fascinating. Basically, if inaudible autoplay video is blocked advertisers work around it using canvas tags which is worse for everyone.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#20This is great. Safari has settings for this but plenty of sites (e.g. yahoo) punch through them anyway. The web has become so incredibly user-hostile in the last decade.