<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vezycash</author><text>With ublock origin you can block loading of media above a certain size.&lt;p&gt;You can pair that with addon called, &amp;quot;Image video block&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tiborbarsi&amp;#x2F;image-video-block-browser-addon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tiborbarsi&amp;#x2F;image-video-block-browser-addo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And finally, you can use Bandwidth hero to compress images on the fly. You need to host the server instance on Heroku. Their free tier should suffice</text><parent_chain><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>Fantastic news for people, like me, who spend a lot of time with $10&amp;#x2F;GB hotspot data prices.  I&amp;#x27;d click a link to a 5KB news article only to find it streaming HD video of talking heads reading the article.</text></item><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>&amp;gt; The Block Autoplay feature is enhanced to give users the option to block any video that automatically starts playing, not just those that automatically play with sound.&lt;p&gt;Good. I know a news website that was on purpose disabling sound on videos to prevent that. So not only does it autoplay, you need to click to unmute anyway to actually hear it!&lt;p&gt;Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people&amp;#x27;s throats so much, what&amp;#x27;s wrong with playing at any time when you want?&lt;p&gt;And why do news websites even care about doing shoving it to the small percentage of people who actually bother to disable autoplay in their browser?&lt;p&gt;P.S. I already had autoplay for videos without sound disabled through about:config flags, but some videos managed to autoplay anyway. I wonder if they also fixed that issue, or simply made the about:config flag part of the settings dialog.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 69.0 Released</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jszymborski</author><text>Or even worse (and anecdotally more common), a video that is hardly relevant or from a year-old story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>Fantastic news for people, like me, who spend a lot of time with $10&amp;#x2F;GB hotspot data prices.  I&amp;#x27;d click a link to a 5KB news article only to find it streaming HD video of talking heads reading the article.</text></item><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>&amp;gt; The Block Autoplay feature is enhanced to give users the option to block any video that automatically starts playing, not just those that automatically play with sound.&lt;p&gt;Good. I know a news website that was on purpose disabling sound on videos to prevent that. So not only does it autoplay, you need to click to unmute anyway to actually hear it!&lt;p&gt;Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people&amp;#x27;s throats so much, what&amp;#x27;s wrong with playing at any time when you want?&lt;p&gt;And why do news websites even care about doing shoving it to the small percentage of people who actually bother to disable autoplay in their browser?&lt;p&gt;P.S. I already had autoplay for videos without sound disabled through about:config flags, but some videos managed to autoplay anyway. I wonder if they also fixed that issue, or simply made the about:config flag part of the settings dialog.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 69.0 Released</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/</url></story>