Thanks for this tutorial. I made the original post over in issues, which i guess maybe was the reason for this tutorial. This will be very handy for novices, and I look forward to the tutorial about doing this from the logger too, you posted about that over there.
I think I might have found out something about doing the logger method while I was trying to fix the problem on that money.cnn.com site page. When the page first loaded up, that video at the top (which also plays in the right side as you scroll down) did not automatically start, that Twitter image with the percentages of the candidate mentions didn’t appear and the comments wouldn’t appear.
So I was messing around with some things, and I posted a comment over in ABP as you know and was given an exception rule to use. uBO took the rule just fine, and it opened 2 script sites (HTTPS and HTTP) for the page. The rule allowed the scripts from amazonaws.com (http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.mailchimp.com/js/mc-validate.js) even though the rule only mentioned mailchimp in them, and it opened CSS for mailchimp.com (http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/classic-081711.css)
I had seen the green gray red blocks in the 4th column of logger, and I was clicking the green block one at a time for different blocked sites, but then I went back and clicked the gray block for them because I wasn’t sure what I was doing and they had originally been gray. And I don’t see that it allowed any of those sites in the My rules tab in the Dashboard. So I don’t think what I was doing made any permanent changes.
At the time I didn’t realize that it was letting the video start to auto-play, and that it was loading that image from Twitter. Do you think I accidentally did a dynamic rule that allowed this? Or that it was the exception rule I got from ABP? Do you think using this tutorial would do it? The image was from Twitter I’m sure, and the video was coming from cdn.turner.com
I am asking because I thought of something. For users on a metered Internet plan where they pay by the GB, they might not want these images loading or a video to start auto playing. So in the case of that page, they might want to only open the comments.
I managed to stop the video from auto-playing, i don’t even remember how, but the rule in the My Rules tab in the Dashboard is -
money.cnn.com http://z.cdn.turner.com/xslo/cvp/config/cnnmoney object block
I don’t know if that is even the best way to block the video from auto-playing, like I said I’m not very familiar with this. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks