Have you noticed how recently, more advertisement videos in YouTube have started to auto-play without prompting? I’ve noticed this is happening on other websites as well, in addition to YouTube. Since I often seem to have about 50 different tabs open in my web browser, this can present a challenge trying to find WHICH tab has the offending / playing video in it. It’s an irritating and unnecessary problem to tolerate. I needed a way to block these video ads in YouTube and elsewhere.
To address this digital crisis, I installed the free Adblock Plus extension for Google Chrome. AdBlock Video is also available for Firefox. If you’re using another web browser which doesn’t support this kind of extensibility, consider changing. AdBlock works and is great.
Via the May 2012 Lifehacker article, “How to Fix All of Your Biggest YouTube Annoyances: Hide Comments, Turn Off Autoplay, and More.”
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