Firefox Website Adjusts Mic Gain?

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A certain website (Voicethread: for school) adjusts my microphone gain without me wanting it to, and my audio keeps coming out scratchy.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

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Check your permission settings in Firefox for microphone.

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suggest you go to Advanced Preferences about:config in Firefox and turn off these settings:

Firefox/Tweaks - Disable WebRTC audio post processing | ArchWiki
To disable audio post processing, change the value of the following preferences to false :

  • media.getusermedia.aec_enabled (Acoustic Echo Cancellation)
  • media.getusermedia.agc_enabled (Automatic Gain Control)
  • media.getusermedia.noise_enabled (Noise suppression)
  • media.getusermedia.hpf_enabled (High-pass filter)
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Wow, I said firefox instead of Brave (a chromium distribution) RIP.

I did it on firefox though and it worked! :smile:

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brave probably does a lot more you dont want it to :wink:

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Yeah, Iā€™m going to use Firefox for those tasks.

I just use Brave for seperation of tasks usually.

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I mean like creating a digital fingerprint/profile and siphoning that to ad companies.
Or poisoning your links. Or injecting into your referrer headers. Or ā€¦

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