Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin

[A Former User]

In ublock origin, my filters, add these.

||youtube.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
||youtube-nocookie.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html

try on : https://vivaldi.com/blog/who-on-earth-is-prebz/

Raymond Hill, the creator of uBlock Origin, published the tip on Twitter recently.

Of course the same trick can be used for whatever embedded 3rd-party resources you come upon by simply crafting the corresponding filters.

[dude99]

@juanvase This Raymond guy is pushing it... hard! He really want Google to "take him out"! LOL

Another ublock origin vs Youtube tip:
Add youtube.com##+js(addEventListener-defuser.js, keydown) under @juanvase suggested filter to block youtube from hijack your keyboard shortcut.

[dude99]

THIS EXTENSION allow you to STOP playing youtube video with a STOP button inside the player; not pausing it, but STOP it from buffering & continue to eat up all your bandwidth.

[Stardust]

@juanvase said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

Raymond Hill, the creator of uBlock Origin, published the tip

What!! I will try it right now! Thanks for the info!

PS: Oh! BTW this thread was bookmarked 3 times already!

@dude99 said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

This Raymond guy is pushing it... hard! He really want Google to "take him out"! LOL

gorhill is a true Hero!

[Stardust]

@dude99 said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

THIS EXTENSION allow you to STOP playing youtube video with a STOP button inside the player; not pausing it, but STOP it from buffering & continue to eat up all your bandwidth.

Are you sure you can trust this extension?

[dude99]

@Stardust dont know, don't use it if in doubt.

[Stardust]

@dude99 I won't

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Ok, it's about YouTube embedded videos...
Still no good solutions to block autoplay on the main YouTube site

Also this autoplay button:

[luetage]

@dude99 Or block all sites from stealing your shortcuts ☛ https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/58673/intercept-shortcuts ^^

[dude99]

@luetage since u r here, I have a request! LOL

Can u make a js that auto click the STOP button from this extension after 2 seconds of youtube player autoplay onload?

Many thanks in advance.

[dude99]

Found this somewhere from someone in raymond's twitter:

||player.vimeo.com/video^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html,domain=~bing.com|~google.com
||scribd.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
||docs.google.com/document/d/e/$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
||docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
||drive.google.com/file/$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
||s3.amazonaws.com/embed.animoto.com/$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
||player.twitch.tv^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html
||platform.twitter.com/widgets^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html

Anyway, is it possible to use this method to block autoplay inside youtube?

[Stardust]

@dude99 said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

@luetage since u r here, I have a request! LOL

and this autoplay button:

[Stardust]

@dude99 said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

Anyway, is it possible to use this method to block autoplay inside youtube?

I just googled if it's possible with uBO to block autoplay too

[luetage]

@dude99 The main goal is to stop youtube videos from autoplaying I assume. This would be a workaround to a workaround. We should rather find a way to stop youtube videos from autoplaying altogether. I know I looked at this some months ago. There are scripts out there, which already try to achieve this, but none of them seems to be functional. My suspicion is youtube regularly changes underlying code so the solutions become obsolete fast.

[Stardust]

@luetage said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

We should rather find a way to stop youtube videos from autoplaying altogether.

Right!

[dude99]

@luetage said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

There are scripts out there, which already try to achieve this, but none of them seems to be functional. My suspicion is youtube regularly changes underlying code so the solutions become obsolete fast.

I'm not js expert, so is it possible to use js to block all <video> tag from loading until we click on it? Nothing Youtube can do if we manage to block or delay the <video> from loading in our browser.

[luetage]

@dude99 I don’t know. I think it would be better Vivaldi provided us with an inbuilt feature stopping all videos from autoplaying.

[dude99]

@luetage it's in the pipeline for 3 years now with 186 votes, it seems Google really don't want anyone to block their $$$ maker by holding Chromium project ransom...

Guys, please vote for these requests if u haven't done so already:

1. Option to Disable Autoload and Autoplay of HTML5 Videos

2. Stop Video/Audio = stop buffering

[TbGbe]

There is the extension Enhancer for Youtube

This allows blocking of autoplay videos (on Youtube)

[luetage]

@guigirl sarc-as‐tic? Is this supposed to be some kind of spasm?

[Stardust]

@guigirl said in Make any YouTube embedded videos click-to-load using uBlock Origin:

So apparently i have no need to add those new entries to my uBO. How come it's already ok for me, if not also for you?

Same question