thank you, Lewis, for trying to help. It's not advertising that I'm trying to avoid as I am able to do that with the "reader view" up in the search bar. If I go straight to the "reader view" to read the article, the video that accompanies the article starts playing mid-way through the reading. I have to wait for the video to download, then stop it, then finally read the article. It is SO annoying. We are also limited on our data so I try not to watch any videos that I'm not interested in.
I'm not sure I've seen a "pop-up" type video, although I can view a running news video, for example, to the right when I'm reading CNN on the web. I wonder if this is using my data, as well? Thanks for any help!