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An unintended consequence of this: sites will use massive animated GIFs instead.

Edit: yeah, i should have actually read the headline and article.... whoops

GIFs have no audio so they're equivalent to muted autoplay, which FF 66 allows.

GIFs don't play audio. Anyplace where they might be tempted to use a GIF they could just use a muted autoplaying video instead.