Stop / Disable autoplay videos
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 9:59 pm
Two of the sites that I visit frequently are cnn.com and cnet.com both have HTML5 (not Flash) videos that autoplay. This is very disruptive with the audio blasting. Currently I unable to find a way prevent that, so I resorted to a brute method of blocking ALL videos on these sites:
cnn.com:
cnnfn.com or money.cnn.com:
I use uBlock Origin's built in function of block large media (I set it to 500K to mostly filter out video instead of images).
cnet.com
or
The former just blocks the actual video file, the latter blocks the video playlist, but I found if I block the latter, the site will retry to retrieve it indefinitely.
Is there a more elegant way to block all HTML5 video from autoplay using rules (instead of blocking all video on these sites)? I use Chrome, and I have tried all the possible setting (flags), but on PC, I continue to encounter video autoplay (with sound!).
If not, is there a list I can subscribe to that specifically deal with blocking of video autoplay, even at the cost of breaking video playback on those site?
cnn.com:
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registry.api.cnn.io/assets/fave/theoplayer
I use uBlock Origin's built in function of block large media (I set it to 500K to mostly filter out video instead of images).
cnet.com
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akamaihd.net/*.ts$domain=cnet.com
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akamaihd.net/*.m3u8$domain=cnet.com
Is there a more elegant way to block all HTML5 video from autoplay using rules (instead of blocking all video on these sites)? I use Chrome, and I have tried all the possible setting (flags), but on PC, I continue to encounter video autoplay (with sound!).
If not, is there a list I can subscribe to that specifically deal with blocking of video autoplay, even at the cost of breaking video playback on those site?