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Looking for a uBlock blocklist that blocks those auto-playing videos that get inserted to so many web articles these days. (lemm.ee)

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A lot of internet publications today have videos in the middle of their articles that have nothing to do with the actual content. Example in this WIRED article here.

I'm wondering if there is an active blocklist for this kind of content? I already have uBlocks "annoyances" all subscribed. These videos slow down the pages and are too numerous to block individually.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 54 points 4 days ago

Firefox lets you set default site settings, make the default site setting disable autoplay audio and video.

For sites where you know you trust the video, you can do a per site permission in the URL bar saying autoplay is allowed for like YouTube

[-] scsi@lemm.ee 37 points 4 days ago

To expand on this, there are two settings you can put in user.js / prefs.js (desktop) or via about:config (mobile), documented on the Mozilla Wiki:

user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 5);
user_pref("media.autoplay.blocking_policy", 2);

Two bonus settings if you want to get rid of the "do you want to enable DRM?" pop-in bar when hitting one of those sites:

user_pref("media.gmp-widevinecdm.enabled", false);
user_pref("media.gmp-widevinecdm.visible", false);

hth

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 days ago

Very helpful for my machine setup scripts. Thanks!

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