diff --git a/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/common/Config.qml b/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/common/Config.qml
index bcbbd1e33..503b23b73 100644
--- a/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/common/Config.qml
+++ b/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/common/Config.qml
@@ -198,6 +198,11 @@ Singleton {
                 }
             }
 
+            property JsonObject media: JsonObject {
+                // Attempt to remove dupes (the aggregator playerctl one and browsers' native ones when there's plasma browser integration)
+                property bool filterDuplicatePlayers: true
+            }
+
             property JsonObject networking: JsonObject {
                 property string userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
             }
diff --git a/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/mediaControls/MediaControls.qml b/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/mediaControls/MediaControls.qml
index 06d1a3818..2d880d010 100644
--- a/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/mediaControls/MediaControls.qml
+++ b/.config/quickshell/ii/modules/mediaControls/MediaControls.qml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Scope {
     property real artRounding: Appearance.rounding.verysmall
     property list<real> visualizerPoints: []
 
-    property bool hasPlasmaIntegration: true
+    property bool hasPlasmaIntegration: false
     Process {
         id: plasmaIntegrationAvailabilityCheckProc
         running: true
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ Scope {
         }
     }
     function isRealPlayer(player) {
-        // return true
+        if (!Config.options.media.filterDuplicatePlayers) {
+            return true;
+        }
         return (
             // Remove unecessary native buses from browsers if there's plasma integration
             !(hasPlasmaIntegration && player.dbusName.startsWith('org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.firefox')) &&