autoplaying videos on websites
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FF here too, although I don't need to use an add-on. Go to Tools > add-ons, then on the sidebar go to plug-ins. You'll see a few plug-ins on there like Shockwave Flash and 1 or 2 others like OpenH264 video codec. On Shockwave Flash, there is a drop-down that defaults to "always activate". Change that to "ask to activate", then you click yes or no dependent on the site that you're on, and FF will build a blacklist / whitelist for you.
One of the reasons I use DuckDuckGo rather than Google.
The main point of Google is to gather as much information on you as possible so they can advertise at you as much as possible.
The main point of DuckDuckGo is to be a search engine. You can search for products on it...if you want to. They're in a seperate tab on the results screen. It also provides unfiltered and unbiased results, since it doesn't track you at all. They have no idea what you've searched for or looked at before, so they can't (and don't want to) change your search results to prioritise things like the things you've searched for or looked at before. So you don't get progressively more locked into seeing only one point of view. They have adverts, of course, since they have to make money somehow, but the ads are clearly seperated in a banner at the top of the screen and not in with the search results. DuckDuckGo is pretty much perfect as a search engine.
I suggest NoScript. It's essentially a firewall for all scripts, so it serves many purposes including preventing autoplaying videos. It also has some additional security features, such as blocking cross-site scripting by default. You can enable anything you want on any site you want, of course, either for just that session or permanently.
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Annoys the **** out of me - I try not to block ads on principle but some sites just take the mick and/or are borderline unusable without an ad blocker 
funny one is when its so badly designed you have two different audio sources autoplay on the same page try and play at the same time conflictingly. There are plugins and so on that can block that stuff but I've not found a perfect solution yet.
I use noscript quite a bit but that has its own annoyances when sites have too much dependency on things you have to manually enable every layer of on a per site basis.
funny one is when its so badly designed you have two different audio sources autoplay on the same page try and play at the same time conflictingly. There are plugins and so on that can block that stuff but I've not found a perfect solution yet.I use noscript quite a bit but that has its own annoyances when sites have too much dependency on things you have to manually enable every layer of on a per site basis.
I use DuckGoGo too, the adverts are optional you can turn them off in settings. I got to the point where I felt like google was stalking me so I switched, I also use Vivaldi browser it's based on chromium but without google stalking you. Much more configurable plus most chrome extensions work in Vivaldi.
Also talking of videos I had got to a point where youtube was showing me a wall of videos by Canada's most annoying man. Complete with the worst case of unmedicated ADHD I have ever seen. That's when I discovered an extension called Video Blocker that allows you to block individual video channels on youtube.
Bye bye Canada's most annoying tech!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-blocker/jknkjnpcbbgcbdbaampbjlhkcghmgfhk
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cross-posting from windows/pc
"Google uses a redirection link to tracks your clicks, in order to analyze the stats and later optimize their search results. This addon simply removes that redirection and turns every search result in its original link, saving your time and giving you more security."
you can just turn off java scripts for google (ff noscript) - it then removes unpredictable text proposals too; and the ff add-on redirects fixer speeds things up
"Google uses a redirection link to tracks your clicks, in order to analyze the stats and later optimize their search results. This addon simply removes that redirection and turns every search result in its original link, saving your time and giving you more security."
I thought it was going to get rid off the advertising at the start, but seems not - I want a solution for that too ?
No I don't think it does that although I haven't played with it, only had it for a week. I use ublock origin too, which I also use to remove Rainforest Prime's seriously annoying X-ray feature in videos. And I use it to custom remove all that stalky 'based on things you looked at' suggestions on Rainforest
I don't get ads on youtube I use adblock plus & ublock origin. Might be I'm not watching the videos that have the ads you are seeing, not sure.
edit - If you give me a link to a video on youtube that you see ads in I can try it & see if ublock is blocking it or not
I wouldn't worry about it. Amber Rudd is going to shut down the internet anyhow, to protect the children.
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^^^^^
Much Obliged!
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great link, but the ultimate irony that the site has autoplay videos....
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i haven't?
unless you mean its a slight sizing issue? after i typed in size 1 i typed in size 3 which seems closer to default than size 4?