You shouldn't just automount external drives. That's a recipe for trouble.
What's wrong with manually mounting them? Pretty sure the desktop environments also require you to push a button (eg, select the drive in file manager) to mount external USB drives.
If that's the case, then you should answer the OP with how it's set up. OP is specifically asking how to do it with random drives other people hands them, not trusted drives always connected.
Auto mounting random USB sticks has never been wise. No telling what random malware they contain.