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OT: Does anyone know of a setting or extension for Firefox to stop those autoplaying videos? I have gifs disabled, prefers-reduced-motion on, and those videos in that article both autoplay, and start again after pausing them manually. I have no idea what the article is about (except what the title says) because I kept getting distracted by the annoying videos.

>>Semaph+(OP)
Settings => Search for "Autoplay" => Click "Settings..." => For "Default for all websites" select "Block Audio and Video".

>>uallo+d1
Thank you, I could have sworn I had that active, but for some reason it was "audio only".

>>Semaph+J1
The about:config settings which you can look up:

    media.autoplay.blocking_policy
    media.autoplay.default

I have mine set to 2 and 5 respectively.

>>uallo+d1
Thanks, I also noticed they allowlisted the FF about page...which is a bit cheeky.

>>styana+N6
FWIW, blocking policy on 2 blocks (at least some, Qobuz for me) streaming sites and bandcamp (bandcamp being the more problematic one as every band is on their own subdomain and you can’t (I think) just allow all of them).