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Pet Peeve of the Day: Websites with videos that automatically start playing the videos. Is there a way to stop it?
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March 7th, 2013
Most websites are well behaved – if there is a video on the page, then you’ll see the picture and a superimposed white arrow, meaning “play”. That’s good – it gives me the option of deciding whether or not I want to see it. And more important, it means that the audio track that accompanies the video is under my control, too.
But there are lots and lots of websites where the audio and video start to stream the moment you arrive on the page. This has the unpleasant effect of blaring the sounds (music, talk, whatever) with no control at all.
It bothers me because (a) it’s impolite and (b) it’s obnoxious and distracting.
Short of turning off the computer’s sound altogether, is there any way to not have these automatically start?
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