Turn off AUTOPLAY in Safari on Yahoo ONLY by DISABLING JAVASCRIPT

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Turn off AUTOPLAY in Safari on Yahoo ONLY by DISABLING JAVASCRIPT

I have tried click-to-flash

I have click-to-plugin

I still get those videos playing in Safari (but without sound)

the ONLY way I have been able to disable them is by having the Developer Menu in the menu bar and then clicking on

disable JAVASCRIPT then the videos come ads STATIC

but the rest of the page is truncated and clicking on LOAD MORE does nothing

because for the Yahell page to work it needs javascript so it can force videos and ads down your throat

someone out there has to be smarter than the Yahell people (but it's not me)

I do see it run .js inside the iframe after iframe after iframe

on the page

It's HTML5 AUTOPLAY that has to be stopped

I have found a script by someone somewhere to supposedly disable this, BUT it does not work

either

I have to BEAT YAHOO. I can NOT let them win!!!

Join the army to defeat the advertising corporate scum suckers

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 2011/i5/16GB mem/1TB HD

Posted on Jun 28, 2015 8:49 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 28, 2015 2:40 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

this does NOT work on

https://www.yahoo.com

I have TRIED all of these extensions

the ONLY WAY I get it to NOT AUTOPLAY

is to use FIREFOX with all the add ons I have on that browser

on my iMac or Macbook Pro

still stuck with sucky ads and videos on my iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6+

that I should be able to control also.

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Answer 2

Jun 28, 2015 3:01 PM in response to philmiamiflorida

ONLY

after downloading from the developer website after installing JS Blocker am I FINALLY able to

BLOCK THE AUTOPLAY VIDEOS!!!

A PICTURE shows up then it GOES BLACK!

I hate, just HATE, anything that AUTOMATICALLY does something.

Finally it's gone

and the click-to-flash or click-to-plugin does NOT do it, JUST JS Blocker

JS Blocker 5.0.4 (150602)

User uploaded file

JS Blocker is open-source indie software created and developed by Travis Roman.

Video Blocker

This will block only HTML5

<video>

elements. To block Flash videos, use the Embed and Object Blocker. All videos are blocked by default. A placeholder can be used to load a specific video by clicking on it.

Image Hider

Images will only be prevented from appearing on the webpage. Unfortunately they will still be downloaded, though you will never see them. This is a limitation of WebKit, the engine behind Safari. All images are allowed by default regardless of where they are from. A placeholder can be used to view specific images by clicking on it.

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Answer 3

Jun 28, 2015 3:21 PM in response to philmiamiflorida

This stopped ALL video on any page.......

all I want to do is block ONE WEBSITE

YAHELL

I want to read the stuff but I hate autoplay videos

safari, relegated to being browser #2 and I'll hopefully get firefox on my iOS devices so I can control it too

when it comes out

I truthfully, don't like firefox as much as I used to BUT it gives me some much more control to stop ads and videos

I wanted Safari to do it but it can't

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Answer 4

Nov 21, 2015 4:39 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Carolyn Samit; that does NOT work.

As for JS Blocker, it's a nightmare to configure; and will slow down your browser.

Apple needs to wake up and spend LESS time promoting homosexuality, and MORE time serving and protecting their customers.

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Answer 5

Jun 28, 2015 11:39 AM in response to philmiamiflorida

Click here > How do I turn off autoplay of video content in ... | Apple Support Communities

Then read the post by: ghaerr

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Answer 6

Jun 28, 2015 3:07 PM in response to philmiamiflorida

of course the BAD thing is the videos WILL NOT PLAY if you click on them.

but that's fine with me

THEY ARE STOPPED

and Yahoo uses JAVASCRIPT to OVER RIDE any settings you have to block HTML5 videos, which will ALWAYS play, not like Flash that you can block.

HTML5 video is part of the code, not a add on.

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Answer 7

Sep 10, 2015 5:12 PM in response to philmiamiflorida

so no one knows how to DISABLE/BLOCK HTML5 AUTOPLAY

unless you turn OFF Javascript?

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Answer 8

pinkstones

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Sep 10, 2015 6:37 PM in response to philmiamiflorida

I can't speak to that, as I don't know much about it, but what I can say is that you have too many extensions installed. Do you need all of them? I have LastPass, Adblock, ClickToPlugin, and ClickToFlash. It just seems like you're loading your browser down with a lot of unnecessary stuff.

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Answer 9

nukemac

Level 1

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Oct 16, 2015 6:15 PM in response to philmiamiflorida

The yahell autoplay garbage was annoying me too. But it appears that JS Blocker 5 solves the problem. In the settings for rules simply enable the "Enable video blocker" checkbox. You can elect to leave a placeholder if desired. In the main rules I leave just enough access to javascript to keep the site functional.

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Answer 10

Oct 25, 2015 9:38 AM in response to philmiamiflorida

I found a way to block it easy and you don't have to do it every time. They have a new autoplay video on the homepage now I just saw. Really annoying. If I want to watch a football game I'll turn it on the TV. This way you don't need to turn off JS as it's needed. Also if you need to do this again, look at the element code and find the script location it's coming from and block that specific location rather than turn off JS completely. You might forget to turn it back on and then that can be an issue.

You need a JS blocker, I use Javascript Blacklist, easy to use. Enter in exactly v4s.yimg.com this must be a new link it's pulling from and it will block the script from loading. In did leave an empty block in place but least it's not pulling data down needlessly and slowing the machine down. I had to inspect the element and see what the script was, I have a couple of older links that I've used too if you want to add them from yahoo video.media.yql.yahoo.com

and video-api.yql.yahoo.com

not sure if those are used anymore.

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Answer 11

Nov 21, 2015 5:55 PM in response to Code_Wizard

You'll need a JS blocker to block the video from loading, that's about the only way to do it. It won't slow your browser down, it will speed it up since it's not loading additional data from the video stream or script it must run. Javascript Blacklist is easy to install and add links and it's guaranteed to work.

Here's another link to block from the Yahoo home page where the some of the articles have videos if you don't want these loading. These load automatically, you'll need to turn off JS blocker if you do want to play the video. s.yimg.com

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