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sushraja Thank you for the additional clarifying questions.
Let me start with "prevent auto-play of video and audio" in the description. It is not clear to me how this would be interpreted to mean that video is allowed as long as it does not have audio.
For your specific questions. In both cases, I would like to have a setting that will prevent auto-play of video and audio, unless I change the setting in the site permissions.
In the early days of the new Edge, Block was an option in addition to Limit. It is still available using a flag, but does not seem to behave differently from Limit. Then I could use Site Permissions -> Media Autoplay to add any site I did not want this to apply to in the Allow section.
It is a personal preference, but in the absence of this site permission Allow exception, I would want site 1 and site 2 from your message to prevent autoplay video and audio unless I click on the video/audio item. But an Allow list would let the user make the choice.
Please let me know if I can clarify further.
- Thanks for the note. I used the Block option, behind the edge://flags, for a while, but it didn't seem to do much, if any, better than Limit.
I hope the team has reconsidered marking this as Addressed at the end of this week and will continue to work on allowing a setting to prevent autoplay of video and audio as this was the feature request.