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Re: Automatic videos on websites

From <henry@att.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Automatic videos on websites
Date 2015-03-09 13:40 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <090320151340198118%henry@att.net> (permalink)
References <090320151310431568%henry@att.net> <cm6dhmF5s3dU2@mid.individual.net>

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In article <cm6dhmF5s3dU2@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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/>
> 

I have ClickToFlash installed and it blocks Flash but with Safari I've
run into the multi-videos on automatic, is there some other setting or
preference in ClickToFlash to stop this behavior?

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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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