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Re: Automatic videos on websites

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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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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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