Has anyone figured out how to stop these web site videos from popping up.
I have searched but have not found a solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Web site video popups
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Web site video popups
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- therube
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Re: Web site video popups
Any particular site where this occurs?
I suspect it is code on yahoo's page itself that does it.
Not sure if an ad blocker would do it alone or not?
I suspect it is code on yahoo's page itself that does it.
Not sure if an ad blocker would do it alone or not?
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Re: Web site video popups
Commonly, but not always, these are videos embedded in the page that pop out into a fixed position overlay when you scroll past them. You can attack the positioning aspect, to keep them in their regular place using an overriding CSS rule; the problem is that this may be different for different sites. Alternately, you could try to prevent pages from triggering script actions based on scrolling, but I don't have a script handy to do that and haven't tested how well it would work.
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Re: Web site video popups
Thanks for the reply.
They are very annoying.
I am surprised more people haven't complained out this.
I do not know how to write a CSS rule.
Maybe someone will be able figure out a CSS rule that works.
They are very annoying.
I am surprised more people haven't complained out this.
I do not know how to write a CSS rule.
Maybe someone will be able figure out a CSS rule that works.
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Re: Web site video popups
This thread has an example rule for a specific site. It is only for that site, but the general principle is to figure out the element that is moving and override its position to "static":
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/quest ... er-1445806
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/quest ... er-1445806
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Re: Web site video popups
It's not just Yahoo it is other websites also.therube wrote:Any particular site where this occurs?
I suspect it is code on yahoo's page itself that does it.
Not sure if an ad blocker would do it alone or not?
Such as http://www.chicagotribune.com/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cd ... s-n1279998
Note I use Ublock on Firefox and have seen this same on other browsers where I also have Adblock installed.
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