I wanted to try piggybacking on this in hopes that Roberto (or someone else reading this thread might be familiar with how to solve a somewhat similar problem in Firefox. (And sorry for the top posting, and, if nobody responds, I'll (eventually) start a new thread.
I use Firefox 52.n on Wheezy. I have the autoplay feature turned off, but quite often (I'm not sure it is every time) when I go to a youtube page, the video starts playing (even with autoplay turned off -- by that I mean the little button / slider on the youtube page). Does someone here know how to prevent this? Thanks! On Thursday, November 15, 2018 08:55:16 AM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I find this sort of thing intensely frustrating. As a software > engineer, it is unacceptable to me when default settings are chosen > without considering the potential harm to those whose situations don't > satisfy the developer's assumptions. In this regard, the whole > gnome-software mess is just as bad as the near total inability to > control when and how updates are downloaded/installed in Windows 10. > > Now that I got that off my chest, here is the change I had to make in > /etc: > > --- a/xdg/autostart/gnome-software-service.desktop > +++ b/xdg/autostart/gnome-software-service.desktop > @@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ Type=Application > Name=GNOME Software > Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service > OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity; > -NoDisplay=true > +NoDisplay=false > +X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false > > By the way, systemd is also part of the problem in this area too. For > example, if you check the output of these commands: > > systemctl status apt-daily > systemctl status apt-daily-upgrade > > I had to mask them on all of my systems because: a) on my servers and > workstations I already have a solution that I like (cron-apt) which > systemd's apt-daily sometimes interfered with; and b) on my laptops I > consider it unacceptable that system boot automatically kicks off an apt > update, especially when I am tethered to my phone or on crappy hotel > wifi. > > This is another one of the areas where I feel Debian has fallen short > with regard to the "universal OS" philosophy. I personally think that > those defaults are wrong and that those services should default to > "off". But even if the decision is made to default them to "on", > disabling them should be trivially easy. I've been a Debian developer > for more than a decade and a Debian user longer than that and it took > quite a while for me to figure out that either of the above things was > happening and then to figure out what to do about it. > > > 2. Is there a way to set a metered connection in debian so every time > > I connect using usb tethering the system knows not to use more data > > than completely necessary at the time? > > Or every time I use a particular connection it know not to use more > > data than necessary? > > I don't think that this is possible. I mean, network-manager can't even > manage to connect to a VPN without leaking your DNS queries, so I would > completely shocked to find that it had support like you describe. Your > best bet is to just disable the offending services. > > Regards, > > -Roberto
