Why Firefox's Media Autoplay Settings Are Complicated and Imperfect
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The article discusses the complexity and imperfections of Firefox's media autoplay settings, with the discussion highlighting the difficulties in completely stopping autoplay.
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JohnFen
4 months 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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