Does anyone know if there is a way to make the Web browser (Firefox-based in my case) ignore audio volume control commands coming from a site? Youtube has its automatic levels thing that it’s forcing on me and I can’t even disable it. (It’s disabled and grayed out, but still happening.) Every time I open a new video it has changed the application volume to what they’ve arbitrarily decided is correct (but meanwhile the player in the page is still set to 100%.) I have a volume control I can reach with ease, so I don’t need their “help.”

I know there is an extension or a script to disable Youtube doing this, but it is my understanding that we have to use as few extensions as possible to reduce fingerprinting…

#WebBrowser #Firefox #Youtube #VolumeControls

  • muhyb
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    2 days ago

    Not sure if that’s what you want but you can completely disable Firefox from media controls.

    Type about:config on address bar. Search for media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled Set it to false by double-clicking on true.