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Is there anyway to disable autoplay videos on bloomberg's website? They're one of the few sites I routinely click through from HN, but the disruption of the aut

Is there anyway to disable autoplay videos on bloomberg's website? They're one of the few sites I routinely click through from HN, but the disruption of the autoplay is quite disrespectful, and frankly boils my blood.

alex_duf 9y ago
I usually end-up opening the dev-tools and deleting the html tag...
- _eht 9y ago
  Just removing <html> does the trick?
  - got2surf 9y ago
    I'm assuming they meant deleting the <div class="video-player"> or <video> HTML element itself.
  - alex_duf 9y ago
    :D
mwsfc 9y ago
If using chrome try this extension: Disable HTML5 Autoplay. Works pretty well and real life saver on many "disrespectful" sites.
ljcn 9y ago
Block scripts at one level or another. On that particular page, it goes assets.bwbx.io -> cdn.gotraffic.net -> imasdk.googleapis.com which introduces some XHR from hopx.cedexis.com and (a subdomain of) akamaihd.net, and the video plays. I love uMatrix.
petecox 9y ago
Firefox: media.autoplay.enabled = false