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.

  • scsiEnglish
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    2 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