A fifth force of nature?
More work is required ...
This Is Why The 'X17' Particle And A New, Fifth Force Probably Don't Exist
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/26/this-is-why-the-x17-particle-and-a-new-fifth-force-probably-dont-exist/
@chrism Nice post, thanks Chris!
Surprising how in depth it is, being published on Forbes. I found that using the browser's Reader mode (F9 key in FF) allows the spurious distractions of their side video to go away. Otherwise it's impossible for me to concentrate on the article.
@design_RG Apologises, I'd forgotten about all the ad nonsense distractions. I use ublock in my browser that gets rid of it. He does write some good articles though ...
@chrism Thank you for posting the article here Chris, there's no need to apologize.
I do have uBlock Origin as well, but there's an annoying playing video that pops up on the right or left columns as you scroll down.
That's on top of the 33 elements uBlock stopped. Argh, awful web design, surprising quality on the article though.
@chrism After I posted here, and scrolled down the page, the count of blocked things was over 50. Yikes. 😟
But I wanted to find a solution - since we both run uBlock and you were not seeing the ugly forced videos.
Found a good article, tried and it fixed it.
Content Blocking in Firefox set to Strict WILL stop it. And uBlock now only sees 11 objects to block, even as I go all the way down the page.
Until now I didn't know about that control on the left side of Location bar. Nice.
Thanks to the tips on this FF page: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/block-autoplay/
@chrism Ah, thanks, Cris, that confirms my theory. Left it set to Strict, and so far haven't seen any fails.
@design_RG Good stuff.
@design_RG Yes, my browser is set to strict. If any unwanted stuff does get thru I just right-click on the annoying element and select "block element" in the context menu.