How to stop Huffington Post autoplay?
I've disabled autoplay in Firefox just like every other sane person. Nevertheless, Huffington Post still manages to evade it. When I visit a page, autoplay is blocked. But if I leave it for any reason -- go to another tab, click a link and come back -- it starts autoplaying. First of all, how do they do this, and why doesn't the Firefox setting work in all instances? And second, how do I make it stop?
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Can you provide steps to replicate? Also, provide links to the videos. I went to the site and nothing played, but we don't know what you clicked on.
The easiest way: Click on an article with a video. It does not autoplay. Scroll down to the bottom of the page so that the video goes off screen at the top. Now scroll back up. It starts playing. It's weird behavior and I don't understand it.
Thanks!
Okay, I do see that every time you scroll down past the video or leave the tab and come back it reloads(probably an ad), but the main video never plays for me.
In the settings do you have "Block Audio and Video" set? see screenshot
Yes, I've had that set for a long time. This is the only site I've run across that appears to have figured out a workaround.