Feature request: option to prevent videos from shifting after scrolling

[bjkeefe]

Many, many websites now have this behavior: at the top of an article or blog post is an embedded video. (Or sometimes, partway through.) Scrolling past the video causes it to jump to a sticky position in the lower right corner of the window. (See attached screenshot.) Also, even if various disable-autoplay boxes are ticked in my settings, the shifted video will always start playing.

Granted, most sites provide a little "X" to close the video. At worst, there is the pause option. But still, it's an annoyance to have to do this on soooo many sites, every time I visit to read something.

Key word there: read.

My point is: if I wanted to watch the video, I would have, when it was right there in front of me. Since I have scrolled past it, this ought to be an indication that I do not want to watch the video.

So, the request is some sort of option in Settings that would prevent this behavior. Enabling it would do nothing else to the page except prevent the behavior as described.

Thanks for listening!

[Jon]

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[brixter]

I find this annoying too. This happens in a lot of news websites. Please block all autoplay videos including streaming videos. I would click play if I want to watch them.

[Catadmin]

Ditto, ditto. I'm a speed reader and do not like watching videos. Also, the sticky videos make me motion sick as they follow me around the screen. Lastly, the websites I look at, especially HuffPost lately, spend so much time loading the video that half the actual article doesn't load on a timely basis or stalls out.

Please just let me turn off the sticky video functionally and autoplay without grabbing an addon that wants me to all it to grab data from all my websites and browsing (UBlock Origin, anyone?). I like Firefox. I would hate to ditch it because the sticky videos are making me sick and making the websites hard to read.