browser that prevent videos to be loaded without consent...

Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo

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One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)

On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?


--
One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round.
One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)

On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.

On 04/26/2014 10:48 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?



I'm using Firefox 28.

Click on Firefox in the upper left corner of the page. This opens the menu.

Click on Add Ons.

Click on Plugins.

To the left of each plugin you will see a box, that by default says
Always Activate.

Click on that box and you will see two more choices, which are, Never
Activate, and Always activate.

If you choose Ask to Activate, and go to a website that requires Flash,
you will see a black box where the Flash player should be, and in that
box you will see a message that says Active Flash. I you choose to
activate Flash, you will be asked to Activate and Remember, or Activate
Now. Activated Now will just allow Flash one time.

"Johnny" schreef in bericht
...
On 04/26/2014 10:48 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that steals
my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?



I'm using Firefox 28.

Click on Firefox in the upper left corner of the page. This opens the
menu.

Click on Add Ons.

Click on Plugins.

To the left of each plugin you will see a box, that by default says Always
Activate.

Click on that box and you will see two more choices, which are, Never
Activate, and Always activate.

If you choose Ask to Activate, and go to a website that requires Flash,
you will see a black box where the Flash player should be, and in that box
you will see a message that says Active Flash. I you choose to activate
Flash, you will be asked to Activate and Remember, or Activate Now.
Activated Now will just allow Flash one time.



Is something like that also possible with google chrome?



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On 26.04.2014 20:02, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:48 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that
steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?



I'm using Firefox 28.

Click on Firefox in the upper left corner of the page. This opens the
menu.

Click on Add Ons.

Click on Plugins.

To the left of each plugin you will see a box, that by default says
Always Activate.

Click on that box and you will see two more choices, which are, Never
Activate, and Always activate.

If you choose Ask to Activate, and go to a website that requires Flash,
you will see a black box where the Flash player should be, and in that
box you will see a message that says Active Flash. I you choose to
activate Flash, you will be asked to Activate and Remember, or Activate
Now. Activated Now will just allow Flash one time.

You don't appear to have read my original post.
It is not about preventing Flash.
Many ads are running even without Flash. I am worried about those ads
stealing my bandwith. If i want to read some info, say text and
pictures: 16 kBytes and associated videoads = 90 Mbytes, so I would need
to dowload 6000000% unwanted stuff?
Maybe blocking all calls outside of the domain would do?
Does a webbrowser allow this kind of restriction?


--
One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round.
One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)

On 04/26/2014 01:52 PM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 20:02, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:48 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings
that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above
mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that
steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice
of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?



I'm using Firefox 28.

Click on Firefox in the upper left corner of the page. This opens the
menu.

Click on Add Ons.

Click on Plugins.

To the left of each plugin you will see a box, that by default says
Always Activate.

Click on that box and you will see two more choices, which are, Never
Activate, and Always activate.

If you choose Ask to Activate, and go to a website that requires Flash,
you will see a black box where the Flash player should be, and in that
box you will see a message that says Active Flash. I you choose to
activate Flash, you will be asked to Activate and Remember, or Activate
Now. Activated Now will just allow Flash one time.

You don't appear to have read my original post.
It is not about preventing Flash.
Many ads are running even without Flash. I am worried about those ads
stealing my bandwith. If i want to read some info, say text and
pictures: 16 kBytes and associated videoads = 90 Mbytes, so I would need
to dowload 6000000% unwanted stuff?
Maybe blocking all calls outside of the domain would do?
Does a webbrowser allow this kind of restriction?



You are probably talking about HTML5 video. Search Firefox Add Ons for
HTML5 Toggle.

There are 36 Addons on this category you will have to look through all
of them to find it. I just checked and it is there. I have never used it.

On 04/26/2014 01:50 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
"Johnny" schreef in bericht
...
On 04/26/2014 10:48 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings
that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above
mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that
steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice
of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?



I'm using Firefox 28.

Click on Firefox in the upper left corner of the page. This opens the
menu.

Click on Add Ons.

Click on Plugins.

To the left of each plugin you will see a box, that by default says
Always Activate.

Click on that box and you will see two more choices, which are, Never
Activate, and Always activate.

If you choose Ask to Activate, and go to a website that requires
Flash, you will see a black box where the Flash player should be, and
in that box you will see a message that says Active Flash. I you
choose to activate Flash, you will be asked to Activate and Remember,
or Activate Now. Activated Now will just allow Flash one time.



Is something like that also possible with google chrome?




I don't know, I have never used it.

On 26.04.2014 21:04, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 01:52 PM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 20:02, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:48 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings
that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above
mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that
steals my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice
of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?



I'm using Firefox 28.

Click on Firefox in the upper left corner of the page. This opens the
menu.

Click on Add Ons.

Click on Plugins.

To the left of each plugin you will see a box, that by default says
Always Activate.

Click on that box and you will see two more choices, which are, Never
Activate, and Always activate.

If you choose Ask to Activate, and go to a website that requires Flash,
you will see a black box where the Flash player should be, and in that
box you will see a message that says Active Flash. I you choose to
activate Flash, you will be asked to Activate and Remember, or Activate
Now. Activated Now will just allow Flash one time.

You don't appear to have read my original post.
It is not about preventing Flash.
Many ads are running even without Flash. I am worried about those ads
stealing my bandwith. If i want to read some info, say text and
pictures: 16 kBytes and associated videoads = 90 Mbytes, so I would need
to dowload 6000000% unwanted stuff?
Maybe blocking all calls outside of the domain would do?
Does a webbrowser allow this kind of restriction?



You are probably talking about HTML5 video. Search Firefox Add Ons for
HTML5 Toggle.

There are 36 Addons on this category you will have to look through all
of them to find it. I just checked and it is there. I have never used it.

Thank you for your patience, but even if it is blocked for display, the
video data has been downloaded. I want to prevent that.

Ideally a setting: give me only the content originating from the domain
i have called, nothing else.

--
One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round.
One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)

On 04/26/2014 02:11 PM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
You are probably talking about HTML5 video. Search Firefox Add Ons for
HTML5 Toggle.

There are 36 Addons on this category you will have to look through all
of them to find it. I just checked and it is there. I have never
used it.

Thank you for your patience, but even if it is blocked for display, the
video data has been downloaded. I want to prevent that.

Ideally a setting: give me only the content originating from the domain
i have called, nothing else.


Go to the website that plays these videos, and right click on the page,
click on View Page Info, and then click on Permissions. See if there is
a setting there that will disable the videos.

On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:50:12 +0200, Linea Recta wrote:

"Johnny" schreef in bericht
...
On 04/26/2014 10:48 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
On 26.04.2014 19:39, Johnny wrote:
On 04/26/2014 10:18 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi
I am really irritated by many sites polluted by video advertisings that
start automatically and don't let me stop them.
Can someone recommend a browser (extension) that can prevent that?
I don't want to prevent flash from running (many of the above mentioned
annoyware ads can bypass a flash-blocker).
I'd want to completely prevent even downloading this crap that steals
my
bandwith.
Regards
Laszlo


All you need is Firefox. When using extensions, you have the choice of:
Ask to Activate, Never Activate, Always Activate.
???
Can you please ellaborate?



I'm using Firefox 28.

Click on Firefox in the upper left corner of the page. This opens the
menu.

Click on Add Ons.

Click on Plugins.

To the left of each plugin you will see a box, that by default says Always
Activate.

Click on that box and you will see two more choices, which are, Never
Activate, and Always activate.

If you choose Ask to Activate, and go to a website that requires Flash,
you will see a black box where the Flash player should be, and in that box
you will see a message that says Active Flash. I you choose to activate
Flash, you will be asked to Activate and Remember, or Activate Now.
Activated Now will just allow Flash one time.

Is something like that also possible with google chrome?

I have Adblock Plus in mine, which I installed after I started using
Chrome more. It helped a lot.

https://adblockplus.org/en/chrome

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 27.04.2014 00:43, Mayayana wrote:
| It is not about preventing Flash.
| Many ads are running even without Flash. I am worried about those ads
| stealing my bandwith. If i want to read some info, say text and
| pictures: 16 kBytes and associated videoads = 90 Mbytes, so I would need
| to dowload 6000000% unwanted stuff?
| Maybe blocking all calls outside of the domain would do?
| Does a webbrowser allow this kind of restriction?
|
...
If you set a URL to 127.0.0.1 (your IP) then the browser
will not retrieve files from there. One single line in your
HOSTS file can stop perhaps 50% of ads from ever being
loaded:

127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net

50-100 such lines will block the vast majority of ads
and spyware tracking beacons, because most of them
are coming from a small number of companies.

Yes, I thought about that.
I don't want to block all ads, it's legitimate fror many sites to get
some funds out of them.
I just hate the extremely obtrusive video ads, that even prevent me to
stop them...
If I could get a list of IP's that use to serve them I'd be glad to
include it in my HOSTS file.

(Digression: Check out Acrylic DNS for wildcard blocking.
I won't get into the details of that here.)

Another option with Mozilla browsers is to block all
3rd party images. But it also seems to block all 3rd-party
files. That's great for stopping ads, because very few are
actually honest ads that are on the site you chose to visit.
But that option can also make some sites pretty ugly.
Some load images, CSS, etc from their own servers, but in
other domains.
Blocking 3rd-party images will also cause
problems with "captchas" because most sites that use them
are actually using a service, so the image is 3rd-party.

All that reasons are valid, blocking all external files is overkill.

To block 3rd-party images, go to about:config and
set the following:
Setting: permissions.default.image Value: 3

You can also stop pre-fetching, which is potential
spyware and absolutely pointless with highspeed connections:

Setting: network.prefetch-next Value: false

That sounds great: Where can I set that?

Finally, these days on many sites the javascript
is actually the most bloated part. Many sites are loading
javascript "libraries", comprising 1/4 to 1/2 MB, which
is far larger than the page itself should be. (That's 4-10
minutes to load on dialup.) The libraries are files full of
script that provide canned functionality. It's roughly
analogous to buying a truckload of soil to fill your window
box: The sites won't use most, if any, of that script but
it comes in big packages, so you get stuck loading the
whole mess.

If you disable script you eliminate almost all risk and a
lot of nonsense and spying. But some sites won't work
with script disabled.

Halas...


--
One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round.
One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)

| It is not about preventing Flash.
| Many ads are running even without Flash. I am worried about those ads
| stealing my bandwith. If i want to read some info, say text and
| pictures: 16 kBytes and associated videoads = 90 Mbytes, so I would need
| to dowload 6000000% unwanted stuff?
| Maybe blocking all calls outside of the domain would do?
| Does a webbrowser allow this kind of restriction?
|

There are several options with several caveats.
First, flash is a security risk and if you don't care
to have it you should uninstall it.

For ads in general, the easiest approach is a HOSTS
file. I've got a sample with explanation he

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/privacytips.php5#hosts

You can also find other samples online. Though there
isn't a lot of information out there, which is very odd
considering how easy it is to implement. If most people
knew about HOSTS files, Google would have to change
their whole business model.

A brief explanation:
A HOSTS file is like a local phone book. When you go
to a URL the browser has to call a DNS server to
translate the URL to an IP address. If the URL is in your
HOSTS file the browser will use that as the DNS instead.
If you set a URL to 127.0.0.1 (your IP) then the browser
will not retrieve files from there. One single line in your
HOSTS file can stop perhaps 50% of ads from ever being
loaded:

127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net

50-100 such lines will block the vast majority of ads
and spyware tracking beacons, because most of them
are coming from a small number of companies.

(Digression: Check out Acrylic DNS for wildcard blocking.
I won't get into the details of that here.)

Another option with Mozilla browsers is to block all
3rd party images. But it also seems to block all 3rd-party
files. That's great for stopping ads, because very few are
actually honest ads that are on the site you chose to visit.
But that option can also make some sites pretty ugly.
Some load images, CSS, etc from their own servers, but in
other domains.
Blocking 3rd-party images will also cause
problems with "captchas" because most sites that use them
are actually using a service, so the image is 3rd-party.

To block 3rd-party images, go to about:config and
set the following:
Setting: permissions.default.image Value: 3

You can also stop pre-fetching, which is potential
spyware and absolutely pointless with highspeed connections:

Setting: network.prefetch-next Value: false

Finally, these days on many sites the javascript
is actually the most bloated part. Many sites are loading
javascript "libraries", comprising 1/4 to 1/2 MB, which
is far larger than the page itself should be. (That's 4-10
minutes to load on dialup.) The libraries are files full of
script that provide canned functionality. It's roughly
analogous to buying a truckload of soil to fill your window
box: The sites won't use most, if any, of that script but
it comes in big packages, so you get stuck loading the
whole mess.

If you disable script you eliminate almost all risk and a
lot of nonsense and spying. But some sites won't work
with script disabled.

The approach I take is to use all of those restrictions
and more in Pale Moon, which I use for most of my browsing.
I then enable most of it (but not Flash) in Firefox and
use that when I have to do something requiring intensive
interaction that requires script, cookies, etc. I figure that
if I really want to see a video it should be something I
can download. I don't use any browser that is configured
to be able to play any kind of video. I don't know how people
put up with all that motion when they're trying to read.
(I use DownloadHelper at YouTube, to just download
anything I might want to see.)

| To block 3rd-party images, go to about:config and
| set the following:
| Setting: permissions.default.image Value: 3
|
| You can also stop pre-fetching, which is potential
| spyware and absolutely pointless with highspeed connections:
|
| Setting: network.prefetch-next Value: false
|
| That sounds great: Where can I set that?
|

Enter about:config in the address bar of any Mozilla
browser and hit Enter. If you see a warning dismiss it
and check the box "Don't show me this again". If the
setting you want is not there you can add it via the
right-click menu. It's self-explanatory.

Mayayana wrote:
I don't know how people put up with all that motion when they're
trying to read.

Me neither. I suppose over time people become impervious to it, but I'd
rather not, I'd rather avoid it altogether.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England