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Offline Lusche

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Shockwave-Flash (Youtube) popups.
« on: March 04, 2015, 01:10:44 PM »
How can I get rid of those youtube popups for every video that's embedded on a thread page every time open the page, log in post or edit something? It's really getting annoying, especially when there are several vid embedded. I tried a few Firefox addons but none did really work.

And no, I'm not going to install flash. I don't need it (Youtube itself works just fine on HTML 5) and I don't want to.
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Re: Shockwave-Flash (Youtube) popups.
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2015, 01:29:19 PM »
Try checking the option in your profile, under "Look and Layout" to show youtube videos as a link. That should do it.
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Re: Shockwave-Flash (Youtube) popups.
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2015, 01:30:31 PM »
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Re: Shockwave-Flash (Youtube) popups.
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2015, 01:40:46 PM »
For the last half a year I've had Disconnect https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disconnect/#reviews on my PaleMoon and I haven't noticed any ads. Lately I installed Adblock Plus https://adblockplus.org/ in the settings of which I always uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising". For testing I just viewed half some videos in the O'Club, supposing they might be the ones showing most ads. None.

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Re: Shockwave-Flash (Youtube) popups.
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2015, 01:46:28 PM »
This was not about ads. I have those blocked out. It was about youtube Flash popups, as I don't have flash installed.

"Show youtube as link" did cure that.
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Re: Shockwave-Flash (Youtube) popups.
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2015, 02:05:17 PM »
Now that's interesting.

While it fixes the initial problem, there's still a minor one left.
those links now shown get me the same popup when clicked, because they are not the standard link to the youtube vid.

An example from this thread: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,370402.0.html

The link now shown : https://www.youtube.com/v/pUdzVnZBaoY 
I can't click on that, it will get me another flash popup.

The 'correct' link would have been https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUdzVnZBaoY


But still, not having the popups just because I open a thread is a big improvement.  :)
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Re: Shockwave-Flash (Youtube) popups.
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2015, 02:23:38 PM »
That checkbox is just converting the embedded link to a URL, which is still an embedded link, so it will still invoke Flash when you click on it.
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