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[contrarianarchon]

How difficult would it be to make an extension for firefox that just says "put a square this color and so-and-so size over the top-right of the screen when I'm at this website" because I'm getting really tired of the videos at Serious Eats; they auto-play a constant stream of (fortunately silent) videos of random cooking while I'm trying to read their articles and the player in question seems remarkably resilient to ad-blockers "block element" feature; I can occasionally crash it for a single load but it's always back on the next article!

Comments

[brin_bellway]

I don't know how to do the square thing, but telling Ghostery (the tracker blocker I already had lying around) "restrict Brightcove Player on this site" seems to have worked? I went through a few different articles, and it remained blocked.

Post-blocking, it looks like this:

[contrarianarchon]

This took three seconds and seems to have worked! Thank you!

(Also thanks to ilzolende and lunartulip who provided solutions which due to taking more than three seconds to implement, did not get used.)

What I did in Stylus

[ilzolende]

I just used this as a userstyle, I think, and it's been working fine?
#video-sidebar-player {display: none; }
Maybe target #video-sidebar-player in your ad-blocker if you haven't tried that already…