Why sites continue to do this is beyond me.
But, fortunately, disabling auto-playing in Firefox is actually not that hard. about:config, then set "media.autoplay.enabled" to false. Done.
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Yes, but I do want YouTube and other sites to autoplay.
It's not quite there yet, but very close - consider qutebrowser. Work on per-domain settings is ongoing (so you can disable autoplay for everything but YouTube) and disabling autoplay is present in Qt 5.11 so hooking it up to a qutebrowser setting is probably trivial.
There's also addons that let you remember a choice per site.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...
That's a great idea (especially disabling preloading as well). Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to actually do anything on FF 58.
yepp youtube then no longer even works
there are million of front ends for youtube with better search which will work woth autoplay off. plus they show the emded version of videos that usually have less ads (because advertisers rightly deny their ads out of the main domain)
or you could just use uMatrix and whitelist sites where you want video to play
Good shout, thanks. Can you point to any good YouTube frontends? I just use MPV with sites, but I could do with good search/related functionality.
Thats should be the default really
Thanks!