[TriLUG] OT: Blocking scroll video pop ups

[Thomas Delrue via TriLUG]

On 08/11/2017 04:22 PM, Kevin Hunter Kesling via TriLUG wrote:
>  4. Have you searched your browser's available extensions for 'disable
>     video autoplay'?  That might be another solution worth considering.

Have you tried about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false
It is set to true by default (and why am I not surprised about this?),
extensions just set it to false. As far as I know, you don't need no
stinkin' extensions for this type of thing.

about:config houses many very interesting settings you can use to tweak
and make your browser a bit more your own (instead of owned by whichever
website you go to these days). I highly recommend a perusal.

> 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?

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