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This CNN article has an autoplaying video. All of my attempts to find a way to block the offending content have failed; it starts blocked, but as soon as I scro

This CNN article has an autoplaying video. All of my attempts to find a way to block the offending content have failed; it starts blocked, but as soon as I scroll down the page, some javascript animation moves the non-existent video to the sidebar. The side-video is hidden, but still loads and plays audio. Even worse, though I remember the original video being a mere 14 seconds, it is still playing some nonsense. Does it just loop new video downloads until I close the tab? Is there no mercy for bandwidth? [/frustrated]

snakeanus 9y ago
Try using umatrix.
asdfologist 9y ago
This abomination needs to stop. Bloomberg.com does this too and it's infuriating.
- SN76477 9y ago
  Mute every new domain with an unmuted whitelist addon would be nice.
freedomben 9y ago
This is one of those things I am really hoping the Brave browser will fix. #plzohplz
degenerate 9y ago
Do these extensions stop the autoplay? Have not used myself: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...
ballenf 9y ago
The new MacOS beta with Safari blocks it by default. Both the big and the small version. It's only failed to stop autoplay once, but that was an earlier beta.
mirimir 9y ago
It doesn't autoplay in Firefox Reader View.
mirages 9y ago
add a block for pmd.cdn.turner.com (small video) and cvp1.cdn.turner.com (big video) Blocks the video without breaking the page
plasma 9y ago
Chrome has a great mute tab feature, just right click the tab bar and mute the offending tab.
- piva00 9y ago
  My problem with these autoplaying videos are on mobile, specifically iOS, sometimes I'm just commuting with headphones, open a link for something and those ads begin to autoplay on 4G, even though I have quite a high limit it always makes me angry, stopping my music because the browser took over audio control and after closing the tab my music doesn't start again automatically. This is really a fucking cancer for web ads, I've been through it all and never got so angry apart from the pop-up era.
  - buserror 9y ago
    I've completely given up reading anythign on mobile, because of that. I read the headlines in GG news, and make sure NEVER to click anything, otherwise they just hijack you. And then they wonder and plead as to why we use adblockers -- in my case, they actually killed the whole medium of 'mobile news reading'.

snakeanus 9y ago

Try using umatrix.

asdfologist 9y ago

This abomination needs to stop. Bloomberg.com does this too and it's infuriating.

SN76477 9y ago
Mute every new domain with an unmuted whitelist addon would be nice.

freedomben 9y ago

This is one of those things I am really hoping the Brave browser will fix. #plzohplz

degenerate 9y ago

Do these extensions stop the autoplay? Have not used myself: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...

ballenf 9y ago

The new MacOS beta with Safari blocks it by default. Both the big and the small version. It's only failed to stop autoplay once, but that was an earlier beta.

mirimir 9y ago

It doesn't autoplay in Firefox Reader View.

mirages 9y ago

add a block for pmd.cdn.turner.com (small video) and cvp1.cdn.turner.com (big video) Blocks the video without breaking the page

plasma 9y ago

Chrome has a great mute tab feature, just right click the tab bar and mute the offending tab.

piva00 9y ago
My problem with these autoplaying videos are on mobile, specifically iOS, sometimes I'm just commuting with headphones, open a link for something and those ads begin to autoplay on 4G, even though I have quite a high limit it always makes me angry, stopping my music because the browser took over audio control and after closing the tab my music doesn't start again automatically. This is really a fucking cancer for web ads, I've been through it all and never got so angry apart from the pop-up era.
- buserror 9y ago
  I've completely given up reading anythign on mobile, because of that. I read the headlines in GG news, and make sure NEVER to click anything, otherwise they just hijack you. And then they wonder and plead as to why we use adblockers -- in my case, they actually killed the whole medium of 'mobile news reading'.