How do I stop self starting videos at yahoo news?

I've installed Ad Block Edge and Ghostery and tried another blocker called uBlock. I installed a giant host file I found on the PCLinuxOS forums.

Annoying videos on Yahoo news continue to start and run whereas this wasn't happening a couple of weeks ago. I may have solved the problem a long time ago (or not) but the videos are present and I'd appreciate some assistance on making them go away.

I did a search and it seems some people want to do just the opposite of what I want to do. They want to get the yahoo news videos back.
I want them gone or at least not self starting.

Thanks and please be nice.

In Firefox, the Flashblock extension works well for me in that regard.

I don't visit Yahoo often, so this is more of a question. What format are the video's? I am wondering as things go to HTML5, if there is a setting somewhere that disables autostart (or are we going to be seeing more of this)?

Firefox? about:config, set media.autoplay.enabled to false. Works for me v31.4.0 on Slackware 14.1.

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Oh thats good Thank you.
I always used flashblock too but i like your solution better.

Sadly, the cure for all this is to totally dump Yahoo for *everything*.

I did and I have not regretted it once.

Their code is buggy and they they pay absolutely no attention to their users' feedback. Just look at their overflowing forum of complaints.

This is what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!

Anyone have a way to do the same thing in Chromium?