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Jun 23, 2015 10:26 AM in response to sharvesonby philmiamiflorida,This does NOT work
OS X 10.10.3
Safari Version 8.0.6 (10600.6.3)
webpage
The videos STILL PLAY in Safari but if I use FireFox (latest one) I have so many extensions in there it will never play anything, so I have to go to Safari
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Jun 23, 2015 3:14 PM in response to philmiamifloridaby philmiamiflorida,I did it
I went to PREFERENCES>SECURITY> DISABLE JAVASCRIPT and WEBGL
To REPLY back to this post I have the DEVELOP menu on the toolbar in Safari and had to ENABLE javascript, reload this page and then I can REPLY back to this post.
BUT
Javascript is DISABLED by DEFAULT instead on enabled. so the YAHELL videos DO NOT AUTOPLAY
I looked in the page source from Yahoo and the have like 30 different .JS (javascript) files running on the https://www.yahoo.com page
This is the ONLY way to stop autoplay
It is not HTML5 video
It's the javascript, and the Safari extensions do NOTHING (either one of the javascript blockers and one that wants you to PAY to unlock the "hidden" features after 10 days), they do NOTHING to stop autoplay of videos
It is NOT flash
I have the Click to FLASH, tried all the different ways to stop FLASH
and I would uninstall Adobe FLASH except, all the good P-0_r-n-0 sites are in FLESH or FLASH....whatever...
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Jun 28, 2015 6:44 AM in response to philmiamifloridaby josechanez,i used the clicktoplugin extension instead of clicktoflash, and that seems to solve my problems w/ autoplay.
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Jun 28, 2015 8:34 AM in response to josechanezby philmiamiflorida,I loaded that
how did you set it up because no matter what
on
those **** videos load and play
and that is what I want stopped
they are not FLASH
I have tried as best I can but I hate a website forcing me to see videos. if I want to see them, I will click them and then watch them.
Yahoo is getting the HTML5 autoplay thing going on and can't see to block it
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Aug 1, 2015 7:04 AM in response to philmiamifloridaby freediverx01,Disabling javascript is not a solution, as this will also break virtually every website on the internet.
Use the ClickToFlash plugin and go to its settings page.
On the General tab, disable Load Flash if HTML5 conversion fails and also Use HTML5 media fallbacks.
Then go to the Media Player tab, set Initial Behavior to not preload, and uncheck Instant Autoplay.
Perhaps most useful... stop visiting websites that have autoplay videos.
Edit: Disregard, none of the above seems to work, other than not visiting the offending websites. Macworld is one of the worst examples. What a crap tactic for such a crap website. Fortunately there's little of any value on the site so it's easy to avoid. But Apple really has to add some feature to Safari to prevent this sort of abuse.
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Aug 5, 2015 8:53 AM in response to freediverx01by William Donelson,This page is bugging me. I have tried all the Safari preferences, as well as the extension "Click to Plug-in", but nothing I can do will stop Trump from bloviating here.
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-surges-new-nbc-news-wsj-poll-n402036
Anyone have any ideas?
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Aug 5, 2015 10:46 AM in response to William Donelsonby joshddt,Has anyone come up with a solution to stop Safari from autoplaying videos (e.g. those on CNN.com and the like)? I've followed all the instructions here, tried all the clickto____ extensions and went through every possible setting combination. Nothing works to stop the videos from autoplaying except for globally disabling Javascript, but that is a jackhammer of a solution as you have to reenable it through preferences every time you actually want to see a video. Any help is much appreciated.
Apple, if you're actually reading this, get on board and offer an easy one-click solution like Google Chrome and Mozilla has. You say that Chrome and Firefox are designed to play ads yet your browser is the only one of the three that makes it virtually impossible to stop web videos from autoplaying.
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Aug 5, 2015 1:49 PM in response to ghaerrby itwontletme,This worked for me. I chose Quicktime in the left hand window. The extremely annoying video was on the New York Times Sports>Baseball page, of all things. Now it just says "Flash" and does not play.
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Aug 5, 2015 1:51 PM in response to itwontletmeby William Donelson,itwontletme wrote: This worked for me. I chose Quicktime in the left hand window. The extremely annoying video was on the New York Times Sports>Baseball page, of all things. Now it just says "Flash" and does not play.
"Left hand window" where?
All the various protocols are set as "ASK" in my Security Prefs > Manage Website Settings...
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Aug 5, 2015 2:03 PM in response to William Donelsonby itwontletme,The left hand window that appears when you go into Preferences>Security and then click on Website Settings... at the bottom -- Internet Plugins -- and I have Allow Plugins checked. Once I clicked on Quicktime in the window on the left, I then selected "Ask" for When visiting other Websites.
These were in the instructions in the message to which I replied originally.
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Aug 5, 2015 2:34 PM in response to itwontletmeby William Donelson,itwontletme wrote: Once I clicked on Quicktime in the window on the left, I then selected "Ask" for When visiting other Websites.
Yes, I have that set. It does NOT help with the URL I posted above.
Again here: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-surges-new-nbc-news-wsj-poll-n402036
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Aug 5, 2015 2:59 PM in response to William Donelsonby itwontletme,For the NBC site you posted, it started playing for me but I was able to shut it off by clicking on the double-bar stop.
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Aug 5, 2015 3:26 PM in response to itwontletmeby William Donelson,itwontletme wrote: For the NBC site you posted, it started playing for me but I was able to shut it off by clicking on the double-bar stop.
Yes, I don't want them to start at all.
Apple, step up now please.
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Aug 8, 2015 8:48 AM in response to William Donelsonby philmiamiflorida,NO ONE has come up with a way to DISABLE ATUOPLAY in HTML5 on the newest release of Safari?
ANYONE?
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by Is there a vet in the house?,Sep 14, 2015 10:34 AM in response to philmiamiflorida
Is there a vet in the house?
Sep 14, 2015 10:34 AM
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iTunesI was having the exact same problem with the macworld.com website: they introduced javascript technology to get around the blockers and autoplay their videos – despite having recently published an article on how to stop autoplay videos (which conveniently doesn't work for their own).
I don't know if it's the same method used for other sites, but if you have Little Snitch installed you can block incoming traffic from, for macworld.com, players.brightcove.net and other brightcove servers, if necessary. If you buy Little Snitch (it's not exactly cheap) and don't want the hassle of having to allow or deny all traffic for all other sites (in other words, if you're not really interested in what Little Snitch does), you'll have to play around with the settings: set Silent Mode to allow all connections in the background, then find the offending servers in Rules and set them to always deny connections. Hopefully it'll work or other sites.