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"The Sticky Video Player Publishers love embedding auto-playing videos these days, which isn't really popular. You'll find mulitple forum, Reddit, HN, or Twitte
by Beijinger 7mo ago
"The Sticky Video Player
Publishers love embedding auto-playing videos these days, which isn't really popular. You'll find mulitple forum, Reddit, HN, or Twitter threads about it.
To make it somehow worse...when you scroll down, you think it would leave you as it leaves the viewport. No. It detaches, shrinks and pins itself to the bottom right of your screen and continues playing. It keeps the distraction going and as if teasing you, features a microscopic 'X' button with a tiny hit area (violating Fitts's Law)."
Is there not way to stop this? The do not autoplay videos option often does not work.
- aembleton 7mo agoBlocking the domain of the video player works. For example, primis.tech you can add this to your uBO filter: ||primis.tech$domain=~primis.tech Primis is one of them, but there are a few of these companies. I can't remember them all.
- Anamon 7mo agoThe no-autoplay feature in Firefox has been very reliable in my experience. Unfortunately, it has a few issues of its own (play/pause status on YouTube getting out of sync, or not being able to use wildcards in the whitelist so you have to unblock every artist or label on Bandcamp separately).