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This is long overdue. Now if someone could just fix the autoplay setting in Safari so that it actually does what it claims to do.

Oh, and also fix the "block pop-ups" feature so that it actually blocks the obnoxious pop-ups that follow you around as you scroll (and often include annoying autoplay videos, demands to "subscribe to our newsletter," etc..)

Edit: Wait, "Muted autoplay is still allowed?" Why is it so hard to stamp out the scourge of autoplay? :(

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Because animated GIFs are already muted, autoplaying videos. If you don't give web devs an efficient way to play silent animations and videos, they resort to horrible and inefficient hacks (animated GIF, image sprites, drawing video frames to a canvas, etc.)

Safari allows you to change the autoplay blocker to include all media, not just audible. But, for the web in general, muted autoplay is the right default.

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