+0.50 Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (hacks.mozilla.org)
1415 points by mfsch 2580 days ago | 368 comments on HN | Moderate positive ~lite vlight-1.2
Summary ~lite User autonomy protection Advocates
Firefox blocks audible autoplay by default to prioritize user control.
EQ 0.80
SO 0.75
TD 0.70
Light evaluation by claude-haiku-4-5 · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Audit Trail 11 entries
2026-02-28 00:05 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 00:05 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
2026-02-27 21:49 eval_success Evaluated: Moderate positive (0.35) - -
2026-02-27 21:49 eval Evaluated by deepseek-v3.2: +0.35 (Moderate positive) 15,109 tokens
2026-02-27 21:32 eval_success Light evaluated: Moderate positive (0.50) - -
2026-02-27 21:32 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.50 (Moderate positive)
2026-02-27 21:09 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio - -
2026-02-27 21:07 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-27 21:06 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-27 21:04 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-27 20:52 eval Evaluated by claude-haiku-4-5: +0.50 (Moderate positive)