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> why the hell can I not conveniently disable autoplay video in Firefox or Chrome

Because Google doesn't want you to since they make money from autoplay, and they control both Chrome and Firefox (the former directly, the latter indirectly).

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Perhaps. There are other possibilities. Certainty that we know all the answers is part of bad design.

What other possibilities do you think there are? It's a very popular feature request that's been ignored for years.

Open Source designers often ignore "very popular" requests because they are certain that they know better than the end user what is good for them (of course very often they are right). So that would be one possibility.

Do you believe that's the more likely answer in this case? Why would their choice be better than that of their users?

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