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After putting up with it for years, and never really looking into it until now, I've decided theweathernetwork.com's autoplaying videos needed to die. Like, in a fire.
It's bad enough they auto-play, but even if you hit the Stop button, their page auto-refreshes, and the video auto-plays again.
Looking at its source, I found multiple references to something called brightcove.net. I added the domain to Pi-Hole, and sure enough...bliss. TWN's site has plenty of other crap on it I'd like to get rid of (why would I want to see pictures of squirrels, who's running that site?) but that was by far the biggest offender I thought deserved to be neutered.
Then I looked a bit more into it...Brightcove seems to serve videos for any customer of theirs, not just this site (obviously), so maybe I'm breaking some other pages in the process--I don't know, but it's certainly a "chance I'm wiling to take". Anybody know of them? What do I risk missing (ha!)
Either way - do with that information what you will.
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That would explain why I can't play them in Edge. I have Edge set to Strict, which blocks all third party stuff on web-pages.
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Well...you have to find the right balance. I don't know about Edge's so-called strict mode, but I do know if you push things too far (like IE's admin mode on Windows Server, which essentially disables JS altogether), nothing works, so that's useless.
Is this strict mode thing the option that comes up when you go to Settings, then search for 'strict'? That seems to be under Tracking Prevention, which to me doesn't seem to address the same goals.
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Brightcove is a major CDN, so by pi-holing them you're definitely going to run into a fair amount of collateral damage.
Being able to use CSS style filtering is a big part of why I prefer using in browser plugins over being limited to something that can only do domain level blocks.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Right now I'm more than willing it leave it that way and find out what really gets broken.
I saw that the BBC is claimed to be a customer of theirs, but the one video I tried to play back still did. We'll see.
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What gives you the right to do that. As another response above pointed out, there are other ways of accomplishing your goals.
IMO damaging a website created by someone else, if I understand the term correctly, is not a cool thing to do.
If you do not like their content or methods, don't watch it.
Nobby Nobbs
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Slow Eddie wrote: IMO damaging a website created by someone else
???!!!
I'm blocking their domain using Pi-Hole, which is essentially is a glorified ad-blocker that runs locally. I'm not modifying anyone's web site other than the way it renders on my end.
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Sorry. Never heard of PI-Hole before. Really sorry.
Spike
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I figured there had to be something you weren't getting quite right from the bigger picture.
No worries bud.
And you'd be right, if I was defacing someone else's web site...then it doesn't matter what the goal would be, that'd be wrong. I'm so not that type.
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a) Black
b) With Milk, Half and Half
c) Black with Sugar
d) Black with Artificial sweetner
e) With Milk and Sugar
f) With Milk and Artificial sweetner
g) Other
I take mine is With skim milk and Splenda
Rincewind
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Exactly -- black and bitter gets my day off to an appropriate start ...
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You should see me without it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: You should see me without it.
No need ... I have a mirror ...
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a. And abundantly as the caption says.
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Hot: Black
Cold brew: with almond milk.
no sugar. no cream.
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h) Orally. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's just wrong, but I like it! 
Lord Vetinari
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Of all the orifices I could pour my coffee in to, that one seems the least wrong.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Coffee enemas are a thing, though. Not sure why, though I imagine it would speed the caffeine intake.
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That went south too quickly.. There's pills for that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Greg Utas wrote: Coffee enemas are a thing
You might as well get an IV of pure caffeine (in the correct amount, obviously...). It has all the same disadvantages of no taste and no smell, but a much smaller "yuck factor".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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An acquaintance with hepatitis-C used coffee enemas to "purge the liver", where (as I understand it) the coffee (caffeine?) caused the liver to dump the toxins it had collected, all at once. I have no idea if this really works in any fashion, just reporting what I was told.
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Actually, H&...(not sure if I can name brands) has a shampoo with caffeine 
Says your hair will go stronger. I didn't felt any difference 
To answer the OP:
- if hot, I like it dark, with sugar and extra extra coffee
- if cold, I like it dark with honey
And, it seems its time for more ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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