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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
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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. : )

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