Why can't Vivaldi block autoplay of videos?
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Wrong browser, not just forum
@ybjrepnfr Careful, you could get put on the naughty list
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But funny presentation
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@Vivaldiscool Vivaldi autoplay "blocker" is inherited from chromium, and where is supposed not to work, it won't.
The dedicated extension suggested, which is used from a lot of vivaldi users, is the only way. -
@ybjrepnfr said in Why can't Vivaldi block autoplay of videos?:
oh, look... over there no there or maybe or possibly there
user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 5);
user_pref("media.autoplay.block-event.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground", false);
user_pref("media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages", false);
user_pref("media.autoplay.blocking_policy", 2);
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no, wait, which forum is this, again?To be honest, I didn't understand what you meant. Do I need to change this stuff in order to get better results?
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@Ayespy said in Why can't Vivaldi block autoplay of videos?:
@RasheedHolland As it stands, blocking autoplay at the root level within the browser would break so many things in the browser code that it's not economically sound. Vivaldi may write their own autoplay blocker to work around this without breaking the browser, but they can't spare the labor for it yet. In the meantime, the default setting for all websites in Vivaldi is to block autoplay. Unfortunately, as soon as the Chromium code included this option, dozens of websites wrote a way to defeat it. So that's kind of a running battle.
OK, so you're saying that from a technical point of view, it should be possible to do a better job, just what I thought.
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@Hadden89 said in Why can't Vivaldi block autoplay of videos?:
@Vivaldiscool Vivaldi autoplay "blocker" is inherited from chromium, and where is supposed not to work, it won't.
The dedicated extension suggested, which is used from a lot of vivaldi users, is the only way.Yes, this is what I suspected, that it's probably Chromium's crappy autoblocker, and not some feature that was developed by Vivaldi itself.
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If I go to any article on Abc News, the video at the top will start playing (after a short while), even though "Autoplay" in Settings are set to "Block".
Vivaldi version: 6.5.3206.48 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
But from reading this thread, I suppose it's to be expected.
Guess I should have to blacklist that website. βοΈ -
@Nebu
Yes.
I use this extension :
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoplaystopper/ejddcgojdblidajhngkogefpkknnebdhThe video does not start.
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@Nebu said in Why can't Vivaldi block autoplay of videos?:
If I go to any article on Abc News, the video at the top will start playing (after a short while), even though "Autoplay" in Settings are set to "Block".
Vivaldi version: 6.5.3206.48 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
But from reading this thread, I suppose it's to be expected.
Guess I should have to blacklist that website. βοΈYes same here, I can't understand how Vivaldi can't fix this, or perhaps it should be fixed in Chromium? It's also weird that you need an extension in order to fix this.
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Said:
I can't understand how Vivaldi can't fix thisβ¦.
The issue is not about Vivaldi but about the degree of understanding.
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@barbudo2005 said in Why can't Vivaldi block autoplay of videos?:
Said:
I can't understand how Vivaldi can't fix thisβ¦.
The issue is not about Vivaldi but about the degree of understanding.
Not sure what you mean, but like I said, it should never be the case that extensions do a better job than the browser itself. We already discussed this in the past, for example, Vivaldi's built-in adblocker is way too basic. And Vivaldi could make a better auto-videoplay blocker that bypasses the built-in one from Chromium, which apparantly is total crap.