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CNN especially gets on my nerves. They seem to have gone out of their way to do everything they can to make sure all plugins/extensions that try to block it fai
by wfunction 10y ago
CNN especially gets on my nerves. They seem to have gone out of their way to do everything they can to make sure all plugins/extensions that try to block it fail.
- aorth 10y agoCNET too. Makes me close the page immediately.
- curiouscats 10y agoI stopped using si.com (CNN's sports site) because of the incredible user hostile actions on that site - as you say not only autoplaying but intentionally coding around users expressed desires to stop autoplay.
- protomyth 10y agosi.com seems to have been redesigned so it doesn't do that stuff. Time Inc. was spun off in 2014.
- codingdave 10y agoI have edited my hosts file so anything from cdn.turner.com is routed to 127.0.0.1. Works like a charm for CNN.com. All the text, none of the media.
- wfunction 10y agoThe problem is sometimes I DO want to watch the video. I just don't want it to always autoplay.
- rspeer 10y agoBloomberg (linked here a lot) insists on loading HUGE high-resolution videos, where someone starts talking loudly immediately. They take forever to load but they give you no UI for "pausing" or just choosing not to load the video until it's loaded and playing. I try to make Ublock Origin rules that block that video element, but the element name keeps changing, it seems.