How can I turn off the automatic playing of videos, etc. on GOG's game pages (or anywhere for that matter)?

I've just got a new computer and am using Microsoft Edge and have already enabled the option to block autoplay (via edge://flags and enabling Block and then setting the option in Settings) but it doesn't make any difference, the **** things continue to play.

Any help would be gratefully received! Thanks :)

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Take Edge. Find the wastebasket. Drag the two into the vicinity of each other.

I was about to say that if you just adjust the permissions of the page, but be it your own foot that steps on the rake.

Why aren't you using Firefox, Lynx, W3M, or Konqueror?

Do you mean the embedded videos? There is an option in firefox to disable video and audio and all sorts of other stuff from popping up, not sure about edge / chrome.

Opening a game card in Edge it does not seem to auto start videos. Maybe it is something else

Where on the site are you looking at when they play if I may ask?

As GOG added them a while back and eventually they backtracked as we all hated them.

I thought they had all been removed as I've not seen one for a while now.

This. It should not be autoplaying since there was a huge backlash when they enabled it with the site redesign and they disabled it.

A couple of pages off the top of my head where this is happening;

https://www.gog.com/game/pillars_of_eternity_2_game
https://www.gog.com/game/divinity_original_sin_2

All the little small videos (gif's I think) within the game description itself are playing. On my old computer I had a plug-in for my ancient copy of Firefox that prevented gifs from playing but none of the Chrome ones seem to work on Edge.

Oh, the animated gifs. Why is that an issue? Are you on a dialup connection or something?

No, a metered broadband account so they are a waste of bandwidth when it all adds up.

Use some ublock or whatever extension to block "https://items.gog.com/*gifs*". Actual format will vary based on extension.

What 100% works is blocking youtube on the firewall, or in ublock, at least.

The embedded videos and gifs will load regardless, it's just set on a loop. The loop will not use any more of the bandwidth than it did on first load. They should be loaded to a temporary folder and then accessed from there IIRC.

I seem to recall some program or add-in that made the pages load the minimum assets required and did away with some modern bloat, but I can't remember it right now.

Gifs and videos are two totally different things.

Gifs are animated images, not videos.

As for blocking them you should be able to just block them using element-picker mode in UBlock.

(I don't know if that will stop them from running but it certainly stops them from displaying.)

Edge is not good. Nor is any other Chrome/blink engine derivative.
Or Firefox.

I recommend Pale Moon:

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/block-content/

"About this add-on

Block download of any of the following:
Image, Script, Stylesheet, Font (@font-face), Audio/Video, IFrame, Object (like Flash and Java applets)

This does not work by deleting the content from DOM after download, there will be no download because the request will be denied!

2 layers of blocking available:

Active blocking of file requests: block content and avoid a request to the server, thus speeding up page load."

You're right, it seems to be animated gifs and not videos that is the problem. There are a couple of suggestions here I can try though.
Thanks will give this a go.
If the name comes back to you, could you post again? Thanks.