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Šime Vidas

Let’s say you want to take a look at Dinamo Zagreb’s squad on Transfermarkt (transfermarkt.com/gnk-dinamo-z).

Default page load (in Chrome): 7.9 MB transferred

Page load with blocking of non-critical scripts* (in Firefox): 1.68 MB transferred

*The three critical script domains for this website are transfermarkt.com itself, tmsi.akamaized.net, and tmssl.akamaized.net.

So just by blocking non-critical scripts, the data usage goes down -78,7%.

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Григорий Клюшников

Scripts are one thing, but videos are more annoying. Every news website seems to have autoplaying videos that no one ever asked for. I really really wish browsers would offer a way to block media elements. Not all this "we'll try to detect whether blah blah and maybe don't autoplay if this and that" nonsense. No. Not these pathetic half-measures. I want a switch that makes the browser forget what a <video> means. Such that it would treat it like an unknown tag. That's the only way.

Šime Vidas

@grishka I am very interested in websites that circumvent video autoplay blocking in browsers. Please share links if you can.

Григорий Клюшников

Šime, my problem is that browsers still allow autoplay without sound for some reason.

Šime Vidas

@grishka Yes, browsers do that because if they blocked videos without sound by default, websites would switch to animated GIFs, which would be worse for users.

In Firefox, you can switch to blocking videos completely:

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