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« on: October 15, 2017, 06:06:19 pm »
I visit a lot of sites and I am tired of these pop-up videos. Is there a way to stop it and still be able to watch them if I want.

I am on FF if that makes a dif
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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2017, 06:20:43 pm »
I visit a lot of sites and I am tired of these pop-up videos. Is there a way to stop it and still be able to watch them if I want.

I am on FF if that makes a dif

I use the Flashblocker plug-in, but many sites still get around it.  It;s irritating as all get-out.
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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2017, 06:21:27 pm »
They drive me crazy too.  And I noticed the new thing is that if you scroll by a video it "follows" you in the bottom right corner.

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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2017, 06:23:53 pm »
I visit a lot of sites and I am tired of these pop-up videos. Is there a way to stop it and still be able to watch them if I want.

I am on FF if that makes a dif

Ghostery and ABP adblock.

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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2017, 06:38:44 pm »
Ghostery and ABP adblock.

I have them both.  No help.
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« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2017, 07:00:25 pm »
I visit a lot of sites and I am tired of these pop-up videos. Is there a way to stop it and still be able to watch them if I want.

I am on FF if that makes a dif

Ghostery or NoScript will do it - But they will generally stop ALL script, and you wont be able to see much of anything... Sometimes, not even the text. For me that's fine (I use NoScript)... any site that has all that blinky crap, I don't need to see...

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« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2017, 07:19:51 pm »
Type this where you would normally put a URL:

about:preferences#content

You can block popups in general, but then (temporarily?) allow certain sites.

I block popups, run Adblock Plus and NoScript add-ons, and use an add-on call Video Download Helper to download videos I actually want to watch.


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« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2017, 07:51:41 pm »
Type this where you would normally put a URL:

about:preferences#content

You can block popups in general, but then (temporarily?) allow certain sites.

I block popups, run Adblock Plus and NoScript add-ons, and use an add-on call Video Download Helper to download videos I actually want to watch.

Point of order: about:preferences#content has been deprecated. It is now about:preferences#privacy.

For normal people, like everyone here except us, that'd be :
'alt' to reveal the Standard tool bar...
Poke 'Tools' => 'Options'. In the 'Options' dialog, in the sidebar, poke 'Security and Privacy'.

It is NoScript that kills the buggers. Once I 'Temporarily allow this page'. there they are.
I would imagine Ad Block could be set to custom block them, but that would be laborious unless they tend to come from only a few sites/vendors... never really looked into it.
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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2017, 08:59:56 pm »
If you go the The Hill or Washington Examiner for example and click an article you will get the pop-video that goes with it...and Roos is right..when you scroll down the video scrolls to.. 9999hair out0000
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« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2017, 09:06:43 pm »
If you go the The Hill or Washington Examiner for example and click an article you will get the pop-video that goes with it...and Roos is right..when you scroll down the video scrolls to.. 9999hair out0000

I do not... But then, I did not click many articles.
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I suspect Ad Block Plus is doing the job, as I am getting no NoScript dialog...

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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2017, 09:18:12 pm »
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

Thanks I added ADP and it works....if I want to see the pop-up I can disable the site or just page...exactly what I was looking for...
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« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2017, 09:23:42 pm »
Thanks I added ADP and it works....if I want to see the pop-up I can disable the site or just page...exactly what I was looking for...

Glad to help... Noscript is even more bulletproof... But it takes a while to get the hang of it...

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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2017, 09:32:09 pm »
Thanks I added ADP and it works....if I want to see the pop-up I can disable the site or just page...exactly what I was looking for...

You can also hide individual images by right clicking on them and choosing ABP: Block image.  Note that by default it blocks all images from that server in the same folder, so if you just want to hide a specific image you have to select that checkbox instead.
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« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2017, 03:19:34 pm »
Have you tried setting media.autoplay.enabled to False? That should help for HTML5 objects. For Flash I have the plugin set to "ask to activate"...

Edit> So then the big Play button may not work but I can usually start by clicking twice on the play/pause button in the status bar...
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« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2017, 03:29:19 pm »
Have you tried setting media.autoplay.enabled to False? That should help for HTML5 objects. For Flash I have the plugin set to "ask to activate"...

Edit> So then the big Play button may not work but I can usually start by clicking twice on the play/pause button in the status bar...

That's funny that you should post that...I just did it and that worked

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Type “about:config” into the address bar, click through the warning and search for “autoplay” options—double-click on media.autoplay.embed and the value changes to false.

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For Flash I have the plugin set to "ask to activate"...
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« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2017, 07:28:45 pm »
Thanks for the link Roamer.

Gonna give it a try.

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That's actually a pretty accurate assessment of some windows opening on my Firefox....
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