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

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

"Johnny" schreef in bericht
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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?

In addition to AdBLockPlus for Chrome, I'd also recommend three other
extensions for Chrome that are available for free from the Chrome
store....


1) Opt out of the Google analytics garbage....

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...ytics-opt-out/
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2) Remove the redirects from the Google search result. Every time you
click a search result, your selection goes "through" Google and in
addition to knowing what you are searching on, they are also aware of
every search result page you click on.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...gle-redirects/
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I have found this extension especially useful when I am using the MVPS
HOSTS file I linked to in another post. There are times when I DO want to
go to a Google results "Sponsored Link", but some of those Google
"sponsored sites" click-throughs (through Google) are blocked by the MVPS
HOSTS file. By removing those "black-listed" click-through redirects from
'the click', I am able to visit those "sponsored sites".



3) Why would I middle-click to open a link in a new tab, and then NOT
want that new tab to be moved to the front?

This extension adds that function, so when you middle-click a link to
open a new tab, that tab is brought to the foreground right way.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...-to-the-front/
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Adding these 3 extensions really make Chrome much more friendly to use.

(For those 'into' browsing Craigslist, there is also an extension that
shows the images in an ad as thumbnails of the C/L search results page so
it's far easier to scan CL search results....

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Lextension.jpg

....however, the latest version there didn't work properly in the Linux
version of Chrome, so I am using one version back v1.0.28. This is a ..

....uh. I see this is no longer in the Chrome Store. What was nice about
this C/L one, is it's just an image previewer. It doesn't do all the
other cr*p that the authors of the CL extensions THINK we want...it just
previews the images.

DanS wrote:
3) Why would I middle-click to open a link in a new tab, and then NOT
want that new tab to be moved to the front?

I find it useful when I'm opening a non-trivial number of links from the
same page. Open them all, then go read them.

Having said that, I *usually* want to view the new tab straight away,
and I'm happy that that's what Firefox does. I just have to remember
that Firefox does it one way and Chrome and Safari do it the other way,
and the other option is available by adding the Shift key.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England