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If you know of specific sites that sidestep auto-play blocking, that would be worth reporting. I think I saw similar behavior on the Yahoo News site.

I think Yahoo News was loading new article content into the same page (like Turbolinks does) instead of navigating to a new page. Clicking links becomes the user action that allows video playback for the current page and that permission is retained across articles because the browser is not navigating away to new pages. Just a theory...

Yes, it’s probably a bug you should report.

I had to set this value in about:config media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed;false

Now, no video auto-plays when I interact on the page.

maybe it should be blocked by default, then one can "whitelist" domain.

My fingers are itching to ban some sites... such as cnn.com, dailymailco.uk

dailymail.co.uk is already banned in my house for other reasons.

Why?