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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.apps |
| Subject | Re: Automatic videos on websites |
| Date | 9 Mar 2015 20:19:02 GMT |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
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On 2015-03-09, <henry@att.net> <henry@att.net> wrote: > > I've run into a few web sites that start automatically playing videos > on the site, this is very problematic when there are more than one > video, sometimes up to six all start playing at the same time. > > Is there a setting or preference that can turn off automatic play? If you are using Safari, you can use the excellent ClickToFlash or ClickToPlugin to prevent such behavior: <http://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/> Other browsers such as Firefox have similar plug-ins modules and extensions that do similar things. I'll leave those web searches as an exercise for you. : ) -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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Automatic videos on websites <henry@att.net> - 2015-03-09 13:10 -0800
Re: Automatic videos on websites Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-09 20:19 +0000
Re: Automatic videos on websites <henry@att.net> - 2015-03-09 13:40 -0800
Re: Automatic videos on websites John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-09 14:15 -0700
Re: Automatic videos on websites Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-09 21:21 +0000
Re: Automatic videos on websites dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-03-10 07:21 +1100
Re: Automatic videos on websites Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-09 21:41 +0000
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