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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
You probably already did this but here's what came up on a Google search. |
For Chrome, there's a tool called "Disable HTML autoplay" you can add as an extension. A year ago, it was pretty solid. Now about 25% or so of sites get around it.
May have to try Tupper's suggestion of using a customizable tool to disable scripts. Turning off scripts within the browser itself is too drastic.
The other option is to avoid sites that use the auto-play tactic. It wasn't that long ago that right-clicking an icon was the default for videos, and even pictures back when ISP connections were slow. Now the webmasters code their content as if everyone has a 10GB pipe right to their server. Not sure why they do that, why the video content is auto-played, or why the default volume setting is 11. I guess the default user is handicapped.
There's something to be said for text-only sites.
