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Media autoplay blocking
HotCakeX I set edge://settings/content/mediaAutoplay to Block after enabling Show block option in autoplay settings on edge://flags.
although on YouTube and some other websites, it doesn't block video preloading, something which i think, is also importnat, as it consumes bandwidth on the background.
if they addd another option for video preloading blocking, that would be awesome, what do you think?
HotCakeX It still only blocks on one of my four systems, even after the update today. But on that one system it seems to be consistent on even the persistent sites. Hopefully I will see this working on all four systems soon.
An option to stop pre-loading would be a good idea.
The blocking is working on all four systems now. I observe one odd interaction on one website. On that site, if I had the uBlock Origin extension enabled, blocking did not work. When I disable or uninstall the uBlock Origin extension, blocking works for that site. Since the built-in ad protection in Edge handles most ads, I have uninstalled the uBlock Origin extension for now.
Hopefully this feature to block media autoplay will be complete soon in Canary and Dev. Some people around me will be pleased when this eventually makes it to Stable.
ms4132 wrote:The blocking is working on all four systems now. I observe one odd interaction on one website. On that site, if I had the uBlock Origin extension enabled, blocking did not work. When I disable or uninstall the uBlock Origin extension, blocking works for that site. Since the built-in ad protection in Edge handles most ads, I have uninstalled the uBlock Origin extension for now.
Hopefully this feature to block media autoplay will be complete soon in Canary and Dev. Some people around me will be pleased when this eventually makes it to Stable.
Tracking prevention is good but ublock origin is on a whole different level.never mind that, I realized you are talking about this: edge://settings/content/ads
i thought you were talking about tracking prevention, because in some cases it can block some ads too when set to strict.
i don't know what kind of filtering or domain list that feature uses, but it's been pretty useless for me.
haven't seen a single ad being blocked by it. it's a pretty generic feature, Chrome has it too. I haven't seen Microsoft talk about it at all, like as a distinct feature of Edge to promote or highlight.
it's always been there