On 8/21/20 9:39 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > ... > saturated YouTube with a gazillion whack-a-mole pop-up > attack ads, and I can't close them fast enough to finish > the video I want to see.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:42:31PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: > Are you getting literal popups, as in separate windows coming up > that play the unwanted ad? I'm running CentOS and Firefox here and > I don't see popups. Lately I have seen some ads from he who shall > remain unnamed, but they are not popups. They show up as part of > the youtube home page and they autoplay, Thanks to all who provided practical advice on filtering, especially Tom who provided some code to fiddle with. Galen's similar OS/browser setup suggests nothing deeply pathological is going on with what /behave for me/ like popups. My portable laptops have 1024x768 screens, pixels big enough for my weakening eyes to see, and screens tall enough to hold enough lines of xterm text for a paragraph. I have had problems lately with some website designs that require more width, don't test for the screenwidth I have, and render badly. Off-screen close boxes are a big problem. So besides the filtering issue, resolved by your many good suggestions, the main problem might be a YouTube/google page design that isn't compatible with 1024 pixel width. Perhaps the page renders close boxes in a different place on the screen than the active hotspot, so that I am actually opening windows that I'm trying to close. After all I've learned from your helpful responses, I feel safer about experimenting with solutions, perhaps starting with a spare laptop and an expendable cloned drive. I'll report back with what works for me. Again, thank you all! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
