Ha, you are both correct! Sorry for missing that entirely

Already running Privacy Badger, DDG Essentials, uBlock origin, Popup Blocker Ultimate, Disable HTML5 Autoplay, Popup B locker (Strict) and none of them are stopping this nonsense.

The best I get is little black boxes with an annoying white arrow circling in the middle -

I guess the only thing to do is immediately block any such site, delete any bookmarks, and find an inoffensive equivalent.

Ready to pull the plug on the whole "digital revolution" - this huge change in the pace of everything has actually ruined everything.

Run one or the other, not all of them. Running that many extensions trying to do the same thing may give unexpected results. Choose one and remove the rest.

Part of the issue is that the site’s hosting the video content have nothing to do so with the main site. The parent site typically “rents” the ad space and other companies put content there. I find some site where I get hits from Russia and China (geoip blocked on my firewall) but the main site is not hosted there. It’s the ad or side bar videos that are. I just ignore them but probably a good exercise for me to figure out how to block them.

You can also update your hosts file to send many of the offending advertisers to Never Never Land.

I've been using this hosts file for years, pasting the entries into my existing /etc/hosts. It currently has over 10,000 entries.

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In years gone by the addition of "noscript" cut a lot of irritating features from sites such as twitter. Maybe this could be a solution?

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OK, thank you, might have it.

First Ijust used one blocking extension at a time, and then went for the 'supra-added properties' of multiples. Nope.

Then I tried that "hosts" file, which I'm keeping by the way, and another "Nope" on this.

But it does look like "Noscript" is going to do the job.

Marking solved... for now.

Killing JavaScript makes a lot of these problems go away, but it also breaks most of the web apps out there. Not sure what “no script” does but it probably just disables JavaScript I am guessing.

:/ That's not a particularly constructive comment - instead of guessing, you can put "NoScript" into a search engine and spend a few seconds educating yourself about what it is.

NoScript is an extension which allows the user to mark individual domains trusted or untrusted, and thus toggle JavaScript on for necessary domains and not for unwanted stuff.

Personally I prefer uMatrix (which works alongside uBlock Origin), but either one is a useful way to keep JS (especially third-party JS) off except when a site is broken.

NoScript breaks a lot of sites. It breaks all my banking sites, and it won't let me whitelist an entire site, but makes me individually trust every js element on the site. It's doable, but it's a PITA to get it set for everywhere. Once configured, it works ok, but I haven't really seen the need for it. Periodically I re-enable it, but usually end up disabling it again because it's more trouble than it's worth to me. YMMV.

That's the benefit of uMatrix's grid layout - whitelisting an entire site is as easy as as whitelisting a single domain (and you can globally enable common CDNs across all sites too, if you want).