wow, i expected a legacy media website to be so ad choked that their page would be unusable, but I didn’t expect my lemmy interface to auto play this video!
Both uBlock Origin and my piHole are blocking prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com (which is the video autoplaying). My browser (Librewolf) also blocks it - as blocked because the triggering iframe has the sandbox flag set.. Stuff like this always is down to your own set up.
yeah, this is actually completely unacceptable default behavior, and I’ve been unable to find a setting to change it. I’m on a metered data connection, so the video buffering without me interacting with it first is literally costing me money. I went straight to the comments to avoid this.
Yup, especially if you’re on a metered connection. An adblocker has to essentially load the ad in the background so it knows what to block. But a PiHole will simply redirect the ad request entirely, so it never even loads in the first place.
wow, i expected a legacy media website to be so ad choked that their page would be unusable, but I didn’t expect my lemmy interface to auto play this video!
Both uBlock Origin and my piHole are blocking
prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com(which is the video autoplaying). My browser (Librewolf) also blocks it -as blocked because the triggering iframe has the sandbox flag set.. Stuff like this always is down to your own set up.yeah, this is actually completely unacceptable default behavior, and I’ve been unable to find a setting to change it. I’m on a metered data connection, so the video buffering without me interacting with it first is literally costing me money. I went straight to the comments to avoid this.
Use a custom DNS to block stuff like this. PiHole, nextdns, adguard etc.
Yup, especially if you’re on a metered connection. An adblocker has to essentially load the ad in the background so it knows what to block. But a PiHole will simply redirect the ad request entirely, so it never even loads in the first place.
Time for a new Lemmy interface, then.