Why I am getting fed up with the internet

[jim]

Despite having just about every popup and ad blocker known to man and adjusting every setting in flash, bash, dash and any other display medium, I wish every site could note the following:

1. I KNOW your site (and just about all others) uses cookies, so I don't need a popup for me to click every time I visit.
2. I do not want a popup showing me "other things that may interest me." I am intelligent enough to find them for myself.
3.If I want to view a video on your site I will click on it myself. If you run it automatically I just go somewhere else.
4. When I read an article on your (newspaper?) site I right-click and open it in a new tab so that (when I have read it) I can close that tab and go back to your main page and read the next one that interests me. If you refresh the main page while I am reading and take it back to the top of your main page so I have to scroll through again to find my place I just get annoyed and go somewhere else.
5. I don't want to follow you on twitter, twatter, facebook, linkedin, linkedout or any other "social medium" so I don't need to see icons for them.

Why can't I just read something on the interweb, close the page when finished and go somewhere else?
I must be getting even more old and grumpy!

[Sope]

Pretty much sums it up

Cheered me up to see you got one past the offensive word blocker though

[bo.elam]

Jim, you can pretty much take care of everything you wrote by using Firefox with Adblock plus and NoScript. I hardly ever see a popup. I might see one or two a year. Facebook, twitter, etc, they dont bother me as I donr whitelist them in NoScript and only allow them when its really necessary for something important.

In NoScript, I set sites that I whitelist to also whitelist flash videos but you can set it up so flash is not whitelisted even when you whitelist JS for a site. In other words, videos wont play in whitelisted sites unless you allow the particular video. I use the programs that I mentioned to clean up the internet of annoyances. I am glad they exist otherwise, I would feel exactly like you.

Bo

[deya]

Nicely put, jim. Totally agree.

µBlock definitely gets rid of the twitters and twatters for me. Faceless marketing loons are spoiling the internet, and the TV.

[jim]

Done all that bo. Doesn't get rid of ALL I mentioned there.

[bo.elam]

Hi Jim. Can you post the link to a couple of the sites that annoy you where no registration is required. Sites where you read, view videos, etc. I like to check them out.

Bo

[jim]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html (Just for entertainment - honest)

A few others I can't remember for the moment but most news sites (depending on which type of video display they use).

[bo.elam]

Hi Jim. I kind of figured huffingtonpost was one of the sites that annoy you. A few months ago I help a friend in another forum to figure huffingtonpost.com. The one for the UK seems pretty similar. This particular site is really nasty with too many scripts being loaded. But really only a few domains are required for videos or pictures. Sites like this one make it a good reason to use NoScript.

Whitelist for videos in huffingtonpost.co.uk. Nothing else is required.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
5min.com
huffpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015...tml?1425914657

The link below, with pictures at the bottom of the page, also work by only allowing.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
5min.com
huffpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015...?utm_hp_ref=uk

This one from huffingtonpost.com. For videos. Changes little from the one for the UK.
huffingtonpost.com
5min.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...ef=mostpopular

For pictures in huffingtonpost.com.
huffpost.com
huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...ef=mostpopular

From the French site, is also similar. Changes from one country to the next are little.
huffingtonpost.fr
huffpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/03...ef=mostpopular

What I wrote above is pretty much all you need to allow in huffington post. The rest is garbage and not required. If you only allow what I wrote above, you get no popups. I ll check the dailymail later and tell you what I see.

Enjoy it, Jim. NoScript is really easy and works perfectly for nasty sites like huffingtonpost.

Bo

[bo.elam]

For dailymail videos, the required domains are.
dailymail.co.uk
brightcove.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/tvs...ling-deal.html

I prefer to whitelist flash for sites that are in my whitelist but you can apply restrictions to videos so they don't play unless you click a placeholder. You can set it up that way in NoScript Options>Embeddings, Tick "Apply this restrictions to whitelisted sites too" and "Show placeholder icon." And untick "Collapse blocked objects." If you use this settings, when you click on a video, you ll get something like in picture 1 and when you click in the placeholder, you ll be asked if you want to allow the video to play. After you click OK, the video plays.

I avoid placeholders and collapsed objects. In my opinion, pages look cleaner without them so I dont use the settings above but I think you said you don't want videos to play unless you allow. Play with the settings. Check the settings in YouTube and huffingtonpost.

Bo

[Sope]

Originally Posted by jim

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html (Just for entertainment - honest)

Those two sites are pretty much clean for me running µBlock with addition of "Fanboy’s Social Blocking List" to the 3rd-party filters list.