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		schiffern 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ads chew through half of mobile data uBlock Origin can also block media elements larger than X MB (I use 8 MB so it still loads large images), preventing the video from loading in the first place. Disabling autoplay prevents it from playing, but the video is still downloaded.

dns_snek 11 months ago [–]

Does this actually work? Most videos on the internet aren't loaded as one large file, but as sequence of short few-second long chunks.

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