[TriLUG] OT: Blocking scroll video pop ups

[Peter Neilson via TriLUG]

I often simply close the web page the instant they come up, especially if  
they start sound automatically. Don't these people care that some people  
use their computers while OTHERS TRY TO SLEEP? There are thousands of  
other things I could be doing instead of looking at that particular  
website.

On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:33:29 -0400, Matt Flyer via TriLUG  
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> It seems that a growing number of sites, especially those that have
> some sort of video at the top of the page, have this "feature" that as
> you scroll down you get a pop up window of the video in the lower right
> hand corner.  You can close the video box by clicking the large black
> X, but I would like to find a way to wholesale block them as they're
> super annoying.
>
> I have tried various ad blocking add ons, and tried to identify the DOM
> element using the object inspector and create a "no script" filter for
> them but so far have been unsuccessful.
>
> Google-fu on the subject has only provided me with links to the
> benefits of these new scroll windows with articles about including them
> in your site, not how to get rid of them.
>
> Has anyone come across an effective means put to a stop to these
> things?