On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:35:45 -0700 Joe Shisei Niski <[email protected]> wrote:
> about a year ago, i intalled a little utility called "Camera Monitor" > on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop. It simply sits in the panel and lets me > know whan my camera is active. It's never come on except when i've > deliberately fired up a Skype call or taken a self-portrait. > > i rarely use Chrome, but recently had the occasion to watch a bunch > of videos ( http://www.youtube.com/user/TransformVoice?feature=watch, > <http://www.youtube.com/user/TransformVoice?feature=watch> where i'm > taking singing lessons and highly recommend to anyone who wants to do > the same). Apparently i'd never used YouTube since installing Camera > Monitor - as soon as i landed on YouTube, i was alerted that my > camera was active! Shocking! Why do the denizens of the GooglePlex > want to watch me watching? > > A quick search via Google (doh! i guess they're already watching > me...) failed to produce anything relevant. Has anyone else noticed, > or read of, this behavior? I've heard of this before; it's a function in Flash, rather than YouTube proper. To disable it, right-click in the Flash window, and select the "Global Settings..." menu item. This will open a web page at Adobe that shows a small preferences-type panel. Though the page is Adobe's, the settings are live on your system. There is also a "Settings..." menu item that pops up a little preferences-type panel, and you can disable Flash's use of your camera, microphone, and hardware acceleration from there. Hope this helps. --Dale -- The Dilettante's Version of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics: One: You Can't Win. Two: You Can't Even Break Even. Three: You Cannot Get Out of the Game. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
