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Media autoplay blocking
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.
It was a very short-lived experiment to use only Edge ad blocking. The "intrusive or misleading ads" portion of "Block on sites that show intrusive or misleading ads (recommended)" let too many ads that feel intrusive to me through the ad blocking.
The interaction between uBlock Origin and the blocking of media autoplay function seems strange. I have left uBlock Origin turned off on the affected website. It might be possible to adjust things in uBlock Origin to avoid the conflict, but I would prefer to have the Edge ad blocking have an option to choose to block more ads. This feature is already in Edge on Android in the Content Blockers setting under advanced settings, where "Allow acceptable ads" to be turned off.
ms4132 wrote:It was a very short-lived experiment to use only Edge ad blocking. The "intrusive or misleading ads" portion of "Block on sites that show intrusive or misleading ads (recommended)" let too many ads that feel intrusive to me through the ad blocking.
The interaction between uBlock Origin and the blocking of media autoplay function seems strange. I have left uBlock Origin turned off on the affected website. It might be possible to adjust things in uBlock Origin to avoid the conflict, but I would prefer to have the Edge ad blocking have an option to choose to block more ads. This feature is already in Edge on Android in the Content Blockers setting under advanced settings, where "Allow acceptable ads" to be turned off.
Yeah there is really no acceptable ads, only ads that advertising companies paid for to "adblock plus" to let them come through.
ublock origin doesn't do that and it'd be great if ublock origin was in Edge mobile instead of adblock plus.
but I see you're talking about this: edge://settings/content/ads
I've never seen that feature block anything lol
it's by default set to block as it's recommended, and still when ublock origin is not running, the web is so wild full of all kinds of stuff.
I think it's different than adblock plus in Edge mobile, I can't seem to find any documents saying that Edge desktop also has adblock plus in it.
