Garrett M. Vonk

The most terrible thing about ESPN’s already-mediocre web site is the auto-loading, auto-play video on their homepage. You’re just sneaking a peek at the scores with your morning coffee when–boom goes the dynamite–a loud video clip starts playing immediately, alerting everyone around you to the buzzer beater some basketball player shot last night.

Here’s the simple two step process to make sure you never again disturb everyone around you. This assumes you’re running Firefox.

1. Install Adblock Plus.
2. Add a filter for this url string:
   http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/mpf/players/*

Until ESPN changes the code on their site, this will block that video from ever loading. Coffee break saved.