Upon googling it, I came by a reddit thread on wowhead autoplaying videos from anyclip. Which recommended getting the Fanboy’s annoyances filter for adblock, which upon being added killed the bothersome videos autoplaying on every page.
Looking at my adblock filters, I already had his social blocking list, but not this one. Such a joy now. I used to use AIM many years ago, but I abandoned it when they started to force autoplaying and LOUD videos.
I didn’t know there were auto play vids on wowhead. My adblocker must be doing it’s job!!!
Its only recently it started, and I do have adblock.
That’s not a site feature, that an advertisement.
See the BAD ADS!! thread:
https://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=142
I haven’t tried this myself, but for Firefox a useful feature to prevent and control autoplay:
https://i.imgur.com/UgPmGB3.png
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1222694
https://www.howtogeek.com/341690/how-to-prevent-videos-from-autoplaying-in-firefox/
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/firefox-improved-autoplay-blocking/
Wowhead has ads??
And this is why I will not pay for a wowhead membership to remove ads. As long as they make the community do their work, they don’t deserve additional money from the community.
Said autoplaying videos on wowhead is BFA videos of cutscenes. Not ads.
Wowhead does not select the ads themselves, blame the ad network. They already switched networks so many times, but every network does a certain amount of bad ads.
Ads are also selected based on region, so the Wowhead staff literally cannot check every ad that’s being delivered to users.
It’s the equivalent of graffiti on a wall, you don’t blame the house’s owner, you tell them so they can remove it.
So the ad is using WoW videos. Doesn’t make it permitted by either Blizzard or Wowhead.
It’s an ad for a clip website, using videos related to the site they’re inserted on. It’s just context. You usually see ads related to either the website you’re browsing, or based on your browsing history on pages where this ad network is used.
I adblocked them by blocking the elements, and installed this filter as well, but the video area is still being taken and has to be closed by clicking the arrow in the upper rightish corner of a Wowhead page to make Wowhead ‘fullscreen’. Has anyone managed to combat this annoyance?
Thanks. This one worked perfectly!
One of my biggest annoyances with webpage fixed.
Odd it hasn’t been giving me any bother either, but who knows.
good one there, lots of useful settings to change in firefox. Autoplay content should never ever be allowed to run on its own!
I just added anyclip to the blocked-list in NoScript, but for the record; before I did that, the videos loaded but they did not auto-start. For me at least.
I agree!!!
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