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Media autoplay blocking
did you set it to block or limited in edge://settings/content/mediaAutoplay ?
HotCakeX I set edge://settings/content/mediaAutoplay to Block after enabling Show block option in autoplay settings on edge://flags.
- It's working great so far, haven't come across any website that plays video yet.
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.
