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submitted 1 year ago by kratoz29@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I use Safari with Adguard and Chrome with Ublock on macOS and Chrome on Android with AdAway root version, and they work pretty fine for blocking ads, but these videos especially in news sites always autoplay and annoy me a bit, I think they have the same effect as the ads in annoyance level for me.

Do you know of some extensions or workarounds to get rid of them for good?

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[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Strange. Chrome based browsers do not allow autoplay in most cases. If the site specifically default mutes the video then autoplay is allowed. I believe Firefox adheres to this as well. I don't know anything about Safari.

Will not autoplay:

Will autoplay:

If the sites you visit autoplay unmuted videos, they are circumventing html somehow. So this means you can probably use uBlock (or ABP) and its element picker to remove the element/video, but that's also annoying if since you won't ever see the videos, and something you do want to watch comes up.

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It autoplay without sound, but it is an annoyance for me regardless ๐Ÿ˜…

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