HTML5 Video Click-to-Play Soon??

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Thank you for your continued development of Ghostery. I've tried others and keep returning to it.

Some years ago I abandoned Adobe Reader. A few weeks ago I severed the Adobe umbilical for all time and purged Flash/Shockwave Player from my system. There is no longer a single folder or file or registry entry related to Reader or Player. If there is Flash content presented by a Web site, I don't need to see it. (OK. I do have a portable Chromium installed, minimally configured and with its embedded Pepper Flash enabled, just in case.)

I was amazed to find that HTML5 content has a far greater delivery landscape than I expected. It's quite ubiquitous on YouTube (even on years-old garbage) and several mainstream news and information sites I frequent have embraced it.

And that brings up a new annoyance paradigm: unwanted content streaming. I'm referring to embedded media players dropping advertising video when the Web page opens, largely via &autorun=1 in the URL. The only relief is to hit pause as quickly as one can. Fortunately, the sites using this are few and far between. So far...

I found a Firefox extension, Stop Tube, which overlays a click-to-play placeholder. It works only in the YouTube domain, meaning as well it doesn't work for YouTube HTML5 content on SomeOther dot com site.

I run Adblock with the EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy's Annoyance and Youtube: Pure Video Experience lists which has no effect. At this point it is difficult to determine how, or if, these can ever address the autoplay issue. I can build a specific rules for offending sites I visit frequently but ultimately blocking is not the ends; click-to-play is.

If there's some other Mozilla Add-on or solution, I haven't found it.

So, are you Ghostery coders working on your advanced option Click-to-Play overlay for these HTML5 embedded players? I hope so. How soon??

Cheers.