Stop videos from autoplaying
Morning all, OK, we have a limited amount of data on our cell phone internet hotspot plan. Whenever we go to websites, cnn.com for example, the videos in the ads start auto playing. I would like to ...
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Unfortunately, its way too easy to set a web video to auto-play, and effectively lock the player controls preventing a user from stopping it manually.
For example, click the above video to watch this funny commercial(3.5MB). The top video is set to auto-play. Try stopping the video? Disabling Javascript or Flash has no effect, as it's HTML5 embedded video?
In contrast, the bottom video is the same commercial, but without auto-start and with standard browser playback controls. What's the difference?
The top video was placed in its own "div" set to "z-index:-1;", so its on a layer below the other video. But since nothing is blocking it, you can watch the top video, just don't have access to the player controls. Like walking on a glass floor which allows you to see the level below you.
