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Ads interfering with podcast playback now on iOS

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something new is happening where I am opening up a webpage in Firefox to read an article, and my podcast that I'm listening to in the also open podcast app suddenly drops out and music starts playing from an ad on the website, even though I have not yet scrolled far enough down in the article to even see they had much less given it permission to play at me.

Blocking this kind of interference is why I have exclusively used Firefox as my web browser on iOS as well as on my laptop computers. I'm very disappointed to see this and hoping that someone will point out to me a simple change of settings that will keep this kind of random noise pollution at bay.

iOS26.1 iPhone 12mini

something new is happening where I am opening up a webpage in Firefox to read an article, and my podcast that I'm listening to in the also open podcast app suddenly drops out and music starts playing from an ad on the website, even though I have not yet scrolled far enough down in the article to even see they had much less given it permission to play at me. Blocking this kind of interference is why I have exclusively used Firefox as my web browser on iOS as well as on my laptop computers. I'm very disappointed to see this and hoping that someone will point out to me a simple change of settings that will keep this kind of random noise pollution at bay. iOS26.1 iPhone 12mini

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There was an update to FF for iOS (unsure what version/date, so can't be sure, but it was clearly after iOS 26) that changed the default to 'autoplay audio and video' without my being aware. I turned that off and it is fixed.

But it is very disappointing that FF made that a default change when I have *always* turned that off, in all of my FF implementations (desktop and iOS, and this problem affected only the iOS versions).

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There was an update to FF for iOS (unsure what version/date, so can't be sure, but it was clearly after iOS 26) that changed the default to 'autoplay audio and video' without my being aware. I turned that off and it is fixed.

But it is very disappointing that FF made that a default change when I have *always* turned that off, in all of my FF implementations (desktop and iOS, and this problem affected only the iOS versions).

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