[SOLVED] Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

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Allen B
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[SOLVED] Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

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This has changed recently and autoplay prevention is no longer working.
Last edited by Allen B on June 4th, 2023, 7:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

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Can you give example url? I tried on Yahoo, I can't reproduce it.

I do use some custom about:config

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media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 5
media.autoplay.default = 5
media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true
as far it's configured like that, any video play will be blocked
Allen B
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Re: Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

Post by Allen B »

b4ckerCrazyMit wrote:media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 5
Yes, that seems to be the one. Thank you.

It's like the site changes the way they do it from time to time and we have to find a new setting for it.
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Re: Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

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Allen B wrote:
b4ckerCrazyMit wrote:media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 5
Yes, that seems to be the one. Thank you.

It's like the site changes the way they do it from time to time and we have to find a new setting for it.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/quest ... er-1283973

It's been a long time, I remember the mod here also share this, and the only way to block all is from the about:config.

Beware that those config will break
  • 1. Google Meet
    2. MS Teams
    3. Prime Verizone BlueJeans
    4. Zoom PWA/Web
    5. IBM/Cisco WebEx
    6. RocketChat
    etc
anyway please add [SOLVED] on the title when your problem are fixed. Thank you
Allen B
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Re: Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

Post by Allen B »

I appreciate the link.
b4ckerCrazyMit wrote:
Allen B wrote:anyway please add [SOLVED] on the title when your problem are fixed. Thank you
Embarrassed to say but I've been looking over every inch of this page and the subforum list page but I can't find the button to mark solved.
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Re: Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

Post by morat »

You have to edit the original post and prepend/append "[SOLVED]" to the subject.

Use the "EDIT" button in the original post.
Allen B
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Re: Stop Autoplay of Videos in Yahoo

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Thanks.
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