[TriLUG] OT: Blocking scroll video pop ups

[Kevin Hunter Kesling via TriLUG]

A bit late to this party, but my $0.02:

As you've no doubt inferred by now, there doesn't appear to be a 
sure-fire solution for the problem you describe.  I'm annoyed by these 
as well (for ancillary but related reasons), and have a couple of 
workarounds for my uses.

  1. Three times out of four, I'm with Peter: close the tab and move
     on.  The content on those pages is rarely of value to me anyway.

  2. I visit these sites infrequently enough that it's not (too much
     of) a bother to

    * right-click on the annoying page element/video,
    * click "Inspect" from the menu,
    * and then to remove/delete the relevant video/iframe/canvas element
      from the DOM.  (Chrome/FF: either right-click the highlighted
      element and select "Delete Element", or just hit the delete key on
      the keyboard).

  3. For Chrome/Chromium, I've recently found uBlock Origin, which a
     colleague touts as a better option than AdBlock Plus.  I'll leave
     to the beholder which is better/philosophically superior, but one of
     the options of UBO is "Block media elements larger than X kB".  It
     has not blocked all of those video elements for me, but certainly
     some of them.

  4. Have you searched your browser's available extensions for 'disable
     video autoplay'?  That might be another solution worth considering.

Cheers,

Kevin

At 10:33am -0400 Fri, 04 Aug 2017, Matt Flyer Via Trilug 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?