Preventing a site from autoplaying video
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Unable to prevent a video from auto-playing from tennis.com. They seem to be doing something odd.
In Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Default Permissions, I have Autoplay set to Block.
When I visit their site the video on the homepage autoplays. Oddly enough, the video doesn't play everytime. But most. Even worse, it was create a pop-up to continue playing it even when I scroll past the video.
In Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Default Permissions, I have Popups set to Block. I also have a pop-up blocker.
Additionally, if I turn the setting off, then back on, then return to the site, the video will play kind of choppy muted, but still have the play button over it.
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@HuckleSmothered Hi - unfortunately setting Autoplay to Block is no silver bullet to stop all autoplaying videos on the web. Some sites just find ways around this to force their ads in your face. I generally tend to stay away from such sites.
The best cure for stuff like this is to use an adblocker. This will generally nuke about 99% of the crap they try to pull. Fortunately, Vivaldi already has a built-in adblocker.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/tracking-and-ad-blocking/From a quick test on the site, the Vivaldi blocker in its default state will block both the "popup" ad and the and stupid live broadcast they force on you.
If you want better control there's even better adblocking extensions (uBlock Origin) as well as some autoplay-blocker extensions that may or may not work on the Chrome web store. No idea how these work, you'll just have to test:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/autoplay?_category=extensionsIn Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Default Permissions, I have Popups set to Block. I also have a pop-up blocker.
This is not popups. Popups are the old-school type of window that was a menace of the web 15-20 years ago. Few sites use these today.
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@Pathduck in addition, user global policies of cookie and js blocked by default, then only permitted on discrete sites, can help with this kind of misbehaviour. that said, you rightly mentioned ubo as a big help.
