Robert in CA wrote:


My question is this: recently on Fox news I've noticed
closed caption printing on the screen of what people are
saying even though when I checked my settings it shows that
it's turned off. Is there a way to stop this?

Thanks,
Robert

I can see what you're referring to.

I use a Chrome-alike browser (SRWare Iron) to play videos,
as the other browsers are less likely to enable the plugin
for them.

First I used the controls in the player wrapper ("Akamai Player")
to enable Closed Captioning.

https://i.postimg.cc/SRz7pWNx/subtitles.gif

However, with the setting returned to the Off position,
depending on whether the "controls" make an appearance or
not on the screen, I can still see closed captions off to the
side of the screen (lower-left corner of video player).

In Chrome, it appears the DOM storage is files like this.

C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Application Data\
Chromium\User Data\Default\Local Storage

01/29/2020 0 https_www.foxnews.com_0.localstorage-journal
01/29/2020 196,608 https_www.foxnews.com_0.localstorage

01/29/2020 0 https_video.foxnews.com_0.localstorage-journal
01/29/2020 28,672 https_video.foxnews.com_0.localstorage

01/29/2020 0 https_static.foxnews.com_0.localstorage-journal
01/29/2020 13,312 https_static.foxnews.com_0.localstorage

Each localstorage file is in "sqlite3" format. I can dump them to
text with

sqlite3.exe some.localstorage .dump

and get some text. But the UTF8 information in the file is stored
as a binary blob with hex, requiring the writing of a translation
script.

Not that this is important of course :-)

The workaround for my Chrome-alike browser, was to shut down the
browser, make sure it wasn't running in Task Manager, and move
those files out of the "Local Storage" folder, so that the browser
needs to start new files when it visits foxnews.com again.

When I did that, the default of "No Captions" seemed to apply
and everything was fine again.

*******

So now the question is, where is the storage for that in Firefox ?

I had trouble with my Windows 10 virtual machine (too much blinkin
and flashing and fapping about). I suspect the area needing surgery
is similar to this. But, I'm running out of patience with this
crap, so you'll have to play with it yourself. I spent more than
*an hour* on this, even made a lunch for myself, in the hopes
it would settle down, but I eventually had to just kill the VM
and move on.

F:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\ Profiles\wxxxyyyz.default-1234512345987\storage\default

https+++www.youtube.com\ directory and all...

On another setup, and older software, I was able to delete
everything with +++ in it, but that's not a good idea
in this case. You'd spot the "+++" items with foxnews
in the name of the directory and delete those to erase
the settings it's keeping.

Paul