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How do we stop these? I keep coming on more and more webpages where the simple act of landing starts a video and scrolling down launches whatever other videos are there. I've had three running simultaneously. What a cacophony!

Yes, there is the mute button. But why should one have to use it?

I have ClickToFlash already. Could not make ClickToPlugin succeed at blocking the videos. The complexities of its settings are above my pay grade.

Any ideas? This is really inconsiderate web design. Intrusive. Insulting, And yes, it IS getting them attention!

I have encountered a few commercial-type videos that I could not bypass. Yes, very annoying. However, most of them have a controller. If you hover your cursor over the video's screen, a control bar should appear at the bottom of that screen. From this you should be able to pause, stop or fast forward.

Yes. Using the controllers is an option. But why should one have to scramble to find the right one among (often) more than one.

I would think that enough people will find these intrusions irritating enough for designers to eliminate them.

If Steve were still around, heads would roll.

It absolutely is inconsiderate and intrusive design. And, unfortunately, it gets more response to the ads than click-to-play ads do. So, advertisers offer Web owners more money to run them.

I personally have a habit of using the "contact us" link on any Web site where I encounter one of these ads to complain to the Web owner. I've received a couple of replies that have told me my complaint made them stop running those ads.

"Intrusive" seems to be the order of the day wherever your eyeballs land.

I'm finding that the morning paper often arrives with, instead of a front page containing the lead stories, a full page ad. And they're getting sneakier about it. You used to be able to discard the page as it was a wraparound, but now they print the last two pages of the section's content on it - so you're forced to keep the ad.

Television is even worse. A third of the screen real estate is now being used for the cable company or the originating station to advertise their other programs. To make it worse, the intrusion often includes animation which makes it that much more of a distraction.

I may have found a combination of ClickToFlash and ClickToPlugin settings which works. Am not sure which is the critical one. Will take a while to test.

I have disabled ClickToFlash and enabled ClickToPlugin by itself, setting it as shown in the graphic accompanying this article:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2449808/when-auto-play-videos-play-anyway.html

Even if dated, the comments thread here is pretty interesting. Ironically, videos accompanying this article were auto-playing. Readers complained, but were told that advertising and editorial have a 'firewall' between them, i.e. a blockage in the dialogue with users. Evidently, advertisers want to be intrusive.

Steve would fire everyone.

So far, so good using just ClickToPlugin with "Load Plugin if HTML conversion fails" UNCHECKED.

I second click2flash. I hate auto playing video and especially those incredibly irritating talking ads.

you can whitelist a site to auto play (like youtube) if you want to.

I'm not sure if this is pertinent here, wholly or even partially, but I found this on line somewhere: