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How to stop HTML5 auto play?
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<blockquote data-quote="cptkrf" data-source="post: 1640660" data-attributes="member: 134861"><p>In my quest to stop all HTML 5 autoplaying videos I have found that browser developers don’t consider it a problem. “Don’t watch it or don’t listen to it” is their answer. And - “Besides, if we allow it to be disabled, then the developers will get really ticked off and tell people to use another one.”</p><p></p><p>So far I can do little with Safari, but Firefox is much more open. The problem is not so much the talking heads that start blabbing somewhere in some tab, although in a quiet office or coffee shop it can be embarrassing, but on a fixed income (called data caps) it just sucks up money.</p><p></p><p>Since the autoplay is an HTML element, normal blocking does not work. If you google about the problem, all you get is the advice to install Click-to-Flash or some such which is worthless against <video controls autoplay>. Everybody is concerned about blocking YouTube HTML5 for some reason, but that has nothing to do with CNN and Yahoo autoplaying in your face.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The best solution is to build a front end that strips the tags before the browser sees them, but that isn’t a task that I want to crank up yet. Maybe someone else will.</p><p></p><p>For now, with Firefox I am attempting to spoof the sender into thinking that I don’t have the proper plugins. </p><p></p><p>On the url line, type about:config and say yes to the warning. Then search on Media.xxx and set the following to false.</p><p></p><p>media.autoplay.enabled;false</p><p>media.ogg.enabled;false</p><p>media.wave.enabled;false</p><p>media.webm.enabled;false</p><p>media.apple.mp4.enabled;false</p><p></p><p>So far so good as respects the autoplaying. I haven’t decided if it actually prevents downloading yet, since my connection is so fast that I can’t really pull it out of the Little Snitch monitor. And, I have discovered that Netstat isn’t working on Yosemite. Still have to knock that problem out.</p><p></p><p>But, progress is slowly being made.</p><p></p><p>Now, about the latest news that Samsung Smart TV’s are bringing you advertisements in the middle of your locally watched video. Of course, the only reason is for "An Enhanced Customer Viewing Experience"...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cptkrf, post: 1640660, member: 134861"] In my quest to stop all HTML 5 autoplaying videos I have found that browser developers don’t consider it a problem. “Don’t watch it or don’t listen to it” is their answer. And - “Besides, if we allow it to be disabled, then the developers will get really ticked off and tell people to use another one.” So far I can do little with Safari, but Firefox is much more open. The problem is not so much the talking heads that start blabbing somewhere in some tab, although in a quiet office or coffee shop it can be embarrassing, but on a fixed income (called data caps) it just sucks up money. Since the autoplay is an HTML element, normal blocking does not work. If you google about the problem, all you get is the advice to install Click-to-Flash or some such which is worthless against <video controls autoplay>. Everybody is concerned about blocking YouTube HTML5 for some reason, but that has nothing to do with CNN and Yahoo autoplaying in your face. The best solution is to build a front end that strips the tags before the browser sees them, but that isn’t a task that I want to crank up yet. Maybe someone else will. For now, with Firefox I am attempting to spoof the sender into thinking that I don’t have the proper plugins. On the url line, type about:config and say yes to the warning. Then search on Media.xxx and set the following to false. media.autoplay.enabled;false media.ogg.enabled;false media.wave.enabled;false media.webm.enabled;false media.apple.mp4.enabled;false So far so good as respects the autoplaying. I haven’t decided if it actually prevents downloading yet, since my connection is so fast that I can’t really pull it out of the Little Snitch monitor. And, I have discovered that Netstat isn’t working on Yosemite. Still have to knock that problem out. But, progress is slowly being made. Now, about the latest news that Samsung Smart TV’s are bringing you advertisements in the middle of your locally watched video. Of course, the only reason is for "An Enhanced Customer Viewing Experience"... [/QUOTE]
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