turn off auto-video?
Anyway to turn off the automatic video player when you browse the internet. Reason: When I surf the new, news or info pages, a lot of them now have video that begins as soon as you open it. And, ...
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Thanks Wizard, and remember tech-stupid monkey here ... where do I find Flashblock and "no script" ... is that on the Firefox or a download?
And, I do want to read the news stuff, just don't want to run video automatically when I open a page.
Does it make sense to you that these video runs are eating up my bandwidth and adding up over the month to more data than I would otherwise use -- does it add a lot? it seems to me it does, because an hour video (watched a baseball game once - without realizing - and it ate half my bandwidth in that hour). SO, I quit doing that ... I think most folks have home or connected ISP, so it doesn't matter with unlimited, but with us, we don't have home ISP, use hotpsot even those times when we're at the condo.
And, I do want to read the news stuff, just don't want to run video automatically when I open a page.
Does it make sense to you that these video runs are eating up my bandwidth and adding up over the month to more data than I would otherwise use -- does it add a lot? it seems to me it does, because an hour video (watched a baseball game once - without realizing - and it ate half my bandwidth in that hour). SO, I quit doing that ... I think most folks have home or connected ISP, so it doesn't matter with unlimited, but with us, we don't have home ISP, use hotpsot even those times when we're at the condo.
