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I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. (1) TB HD Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Ram 12.0 GB System type : 64-bit operating system I also have I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" System type : 64-bit operating system and (external hard drives) (8500) WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (780) Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive 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 |
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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 |
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On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 2:17:23 AM UTC-8, Paul wrote:
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 The weird thing is that this just started yesterday before that everything was fine. I've already tried to remove it but was unsecessful which is why I posted the problem but if you can't resolve it then it's best I leave well enough alone and live with it. Thanks, Robert |
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On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 2:17:23 AM UTC-8, Paul wrote: 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 Here's a screenshot of my settings which shows I have it set to off but it still visible. https://postimg.cc/CZq3bGH6 Robert |
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Robert in CA wrote:
On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 2:17:23 AM UTC-8, Paul wrote: 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 Here's a screenshot of my settings which shows I have it set to off but it still visible. https://postimg.cc/CZq3bGH6 Robert If you're using Firefox, see if you can spot some directories with +++ in the directory name. You would be looking for a couple with "+++" and "foxnews" as components of the name. I think the setting is in there. I believe that's DOM storage on Firefox. It's the "new cookie" as it were, a bucket for websites to abuse. Paul |
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On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 4:52:16 PM UTC-8, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 2:17:23 AM UTC-8, Paul wrote: 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 Here's a screenshot of my settings which shows I have it set to off but it still visible. https://postimg.cc/CZq3bGH6 Robert If you're using Firefox, see if you can spot some directories with +++ in the directory name. You would be looking for a couple with "+++" and "foxnews" as components of the name. I think the setting is in there. I believe that's DOM storage on Firefox. It's the "new cookie" as it were, a bucket for websites to abuse. Paul That's a little bit beyond me. I guess I'll just have to live with it but why have a setting/feature that doesn't work when you set it to off? Robert |
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I tried using Agent Ransack with foxnews as the file name and +++ as containing text but it found nothing. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong? Robert |
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