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I've pretty much stopped going to CNN because of this. I have managed to block a lot of this video by using privacy badger and blocking the underlying CDNs whe
by drewg123 9y ago
I've pretty much stopped going to CNN because of this. I have managed to block a lot of this video by using privacy badger and blocking the underlying CDNs where it is played from. However, I've never been able to block CNN effectively, so I've just given up on them.
- lamontcg 9y agoNewsweek's autoplay is literally cancer. I've got the disable HTML5 autoplay, but the newsweek site is so aggressive about autoplaying that it bugs out the browser.
- drewg123 9y agoThe "just read" chrome extension seems to work pretty well at stopping media playback for Newsweek.
- astronautjones 9y agoThey're really bad about it. But I recently discovered that they offer this service: http://lite.cnn.io/en http://lite.cnn.io/en I really wish washington post, nyt, etc would offer something similar, and really miss the days where everyone had wap versions available