Help with blocking auto-play of videos on Android?

DaRuSsIaMaN

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Ugh. I'm using FF on Android. All the solutions I've so far found online seem to only work on the desktop version but not on my mobile. For example I tried adding the Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension, as recommended in this thread on the Mozilla forum:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1224795
Didn't work.

Btw, this is an example of a site that keeps playing video:
https://www.cnet.com/news/why-some-...0-p20-pro-mate-10-pro-phones-arent-in-the-us/

On my desktop, I don't even have to do anything -- all my about:config settings are at default, and nothing plays automatically when I visit that site. On mobile, I tried changing 3 different settings that come up when searching "media.autoplay", and nothing helps so far. I have:

media.autoplay.enabled: false
<-- the most obvious one that should kill it
media.autoplay.block-webaudio: false <-- I would be satisfied if it at least doesn't blare sound randomly...
media.autoplay.ask-permission: true

It looks like none of these have any impact on that stupid video on that page. Wtf is the point of these about:config things if they don't even do anything?? What else can be done? Should I just give up and switch to a different browser? Is there one that is 100% fail-safe with this? This shit is driving me nuts.
 
Thanks! I would prefer to use FF, as Google is already pretty much a monopoly, and I would rather support their competitors, other things being (more or less) equal. But if necessary I'll resort to Chrome, so that's good to know that at least one option exists.
 
Settings > Advanced > Block Autoplay

Testing the sites linked above by turning that option off/on works perfectly for me.
 
In Android Chrome version 71.0.3578.99 the path is Chrome > Settings > Advanced > Site settings > Media > Autoplay [toggle to Blocked]
 
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