Disable Flash. Re-enable when there is a video you must see.
I’d like such an extension as well.
I hate those vids that just play automatically.
You can turn off the audio or pause them but they still take up bandwidth downloading the media files :-/
A few years ago I wrote a simple program in Delphi that would go to an html address and re-write a news article by replacing lots of names and words with more suitable right-leaning replacements...it was hilarious :-) Maybe I should resurrect that old program and let freepers have some fun. A browser extension could be created to do the same thing...lol It would give a site like the New York Times a whole new look. The coding is mostly just simple string handling.
maybe settings in your browser ?
Autoplay is exactly the reason why I never ever ever go to big Network fancy websites that send you 10 trillion things before you get to the text sentence or two you wanted to read.
websites of MSM companies are like the gulag archipelago, many of them won’t let you go. It’s like the roach motel, they check in but they can’t check out.
that is why I always post a simple picture of any free republic story that requires a photo, so that others don’t have to go to that network.
but so few freepers know how to post photos.
it’s crazy, there will be 100 responses and no one post the photo of the story.
cripes...I didn’t address this to you.
I’ve added this to Opera and Slimjet. ( see article below - links to extensions in article)
Opera has there own settings for stopping some of this. Slim jet does not.
IE seems to have it in its settings, I haven’t tried it yet.
EDGE doesn’t seem to have it in its settings.
started digging
interesting article here
good luck
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
I was wondering about this literally yesterday. It cannot be done on a mac as I understand it, unless the user wants to go into terminal and do some tinkering.
Scriptsafe is usually the best extension for this problem.
Disable HTML5 Autoplay is also a viable solution.
I concur. I utterly detest autoplay. I click to read an article, and am reading it when suddenly the speakers start blaring some unrelated tripe at me.
BEGONE, autoplay, and may your creator suffer a long slow painful death, SOON!