Why Firefox's media autoplay settings are complicated and imperfect

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JohnFen · 14h ago

Autoplay is a real mess, yes, and as near as I can tell (as the article says), the only way to really stop it is to both disable autoplay in the browser and disable Javascript.

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Why Firefox's media autoplay settings are complicated and imperfect

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