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User profile for user: Cupart
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Mac OSX 11.4, Safari 14.1, Website set to Never Auto-Play - Doesn't work most of the time

Hi All,


As the subject line reads, I'm using a Mac running the newest version of OSX with Safari and some news papers do what they can to have videos running which is a propper painpoint.


So my question is: When the browser's Never Auto-Play is active, how come it dones't work for some and others it does?


Is there anything that can be done (maybe on a case-to-case basis) to get rid of these annoying auto play videos?


I searched for the auto play switch off, but it's the same answer which doesn't work all over (at least what I found) or way out of date :-)

iMac 27″, macOS 11.2

Posted on May 27, 2021 12:15 AM

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User profile for user: dominic23
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Posted on May 27, 2021 3:36 AM

Go step by step and test.


1. Update Safari, if an update is available. Update may come with bug fixes.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204416


2. Quit Safari, launch Safari holding the Shift key down.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987

3. Startup in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac.  

    Quote:

    It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility. 

    And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and 

    the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed.


4. Clear History

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac

    Please read the article before clearing history, 

    this is like a low level resetting of Safari without affecting passwords and bookmarks.


5. If Safari doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204098

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dominic23
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May 27, 2021 3:36 AM in response to Cupart

Go step by step and test.


1. Update Safari, if an update is available. Update may come with bug fixes.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204416


2. Quit Safari, launch Safari holding the Shift key down.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987

3. Startup in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac.  

    Quote:

    It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility. 

    And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and 

    the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed.


4. Clear History

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac

    Please read the article before clearing history, 

    this is like a low level resetting of Safari without affecting passwords and bookmarks.


5. If Safari doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204098

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Mac OSX 11.4, Safari 14.1, Website set to Never Auto-Play - Doesn't work most of the time

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