[PLUG] YouTube spam filter - thanks to all

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Sat Aug 22 22:35:42 UTC 2020


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

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com



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