Lifehacker: You Can Finally Auto-Mute TikTok. “Opening TikTok with the sound blaring can be a bit embarrassing, especially if you’re in an academic or professional setting. And thanks to the auto-paying feed, this just goes on and on until you either hurriedly close the app, or find the mute switch. But TikTok has now added a much-needed feature that mutes the app on every launch—the videos will still automatically play, but now without sound.”
Tag Archives: autoplay
Lifehacker: How to Stop Videos From Autoplaying All Over the Internet
Lifehacker: How to Stop Videos From Autoplaying All Over the Internet. “Universally speaking, autoplay videos are annoying. On social media, they can suck you in, and the next thing you know, you’ve spent an hour scrolling through videos. On websites, they get in the way, following you around the page and covering up the text of an article. Thankfully, there are ways to disable autoplaying videos everywhere.”
Parentology: How To Turn Off Autoplay Across All Your Devices
Parentology: How To Turn Off Autoplay Across All Your Devices. “Nobody likes opening up a browser tab on their computer or phone, only to be immediately bombarded by some video they never even clicked on. It’s called autoplay, and internet users have been unjustly startled by it for too long. While there’s no easy way too turn off autoplay on all devices at once, here’s a step-by-step guide to losing the annoying feature wherever you browse.”
The Register: Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don’t have to – others disagree
The Register: Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don’t have to – others disagree. “Earlier this year, a user of the mobile version of Chrome on Android complained on the Google support forum that videos started playing upon visiting a web page and there appeared to be no way to prevent this. Other forum participants chimed in, noting that the controls for preventing videos from autoplaying had disappeared. It’s a concern that has been raised before.”
Lifehacker: How to Turn Off Autoplay GIFs and Videos on Twitter
Lifehacker: How to Turn Off Autoplay GIFs and Videos on Twitter. “No matter the reason, Twitter makes it incredibly easy to prevent media from automatically starting in your timeline. And you can disable this functionality for Twitter’s website and apps, it’s just a slightly different process for each platform.”
Ars Technica: Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
Ars Technica: Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video. “Nobody likes auto-playing video or sites that keep scrolling away infinitely when you’re just trying to reach the bottom of the page. But you probably don’t hate either ‘feature’ as much as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who introduced a bill today to ban these and other “exploitative” practices.”
TechCrunch: Firefox will soon mute all autoplaying videos
TechCrunch: Firefox will soon mute all autoplaying videos. “There are many things worse than autoplaying video and audio on the web. The world is a messy place, after all. But it sure is distracting when you surf to a website and suddenly some video starts playing at full volume. Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft Edge both offer tools to disable these annoyances and, starting with the launch of its next version in March, Mozilla’s Firefox browser will, too.”
New York Times: Autoplay Videos Are Not Going Away. Here’s How to Fight Them.
New York Times: Autoplay Videos Are Not Going Away. Here’s How to Fight Them.. “You’re probably familiar with this horrendous experience: You are perusing a website, and suddenly an annoying voice or unfamiliar music blasts through your speakers. You wonder, where is this coming from? You scroll up and down the webpage only to realize that a video is playing without your consent. And the noise polluting your ears is coming from an ad preceding a video you had never clicked to watch.”
CNET: Firefox users finally get option to block autoplay video, audio
CNET: Firefox users finally get option to block autoplay video, audio. “Firefox users are finally getting the option to block the video and audio that frequently begins playing automatically when you visit websites, something already offered on Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome browsers. The option was added over the weekend to Firefox Nightly, the latest test version of Mozilla’s popular web browser, asking users by default whether they want to allow a website to autoplay video with sound. Users also have the option to go into their preferences and block all sites’ autoplay ability if they don’t want to deal with it for each site they visit.”
CNET: Google rolls back Chrome update breaking web games
CNET: Google rolls back Chrome update breaking web games. “Google said Tuesday it’s updated its Chrome browser to temporarily remove a recent change that broke the audio on several web-based games. By automatically pausing Web Audio objects when a webpage is launched, the update earlier this month was intended to help silence ads that seemingly begin barking at you when you visit some sites. But the feature reportedly also silenced the audio in web-based games.”
PC Gamer: A Google Chrome update breaks the audio in numerous web-based games
PC Gamer: A Google Chrome update breaks the audio in numerous web-based games. “Google Chrome was recently updated to block auto-playing videos on websites by default. It quickly came to light that the way the change was implemented has a pretty big downside, as a number of game developers including ‘Getting Over It With’ Bennett Foddy and VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh, hit up Twitter to say that the change had killed the audio in their games, and potentially thousands of others.”
Google Blog: Improving Autoplay in Chrome
Google Blog: Improving Autoplay in Chrome . “For many, Chrome is more than a browser—it’s also a TV, phone, radio, and jukebox for the wide range of media experiences the web has to offer. And when you hit your favorite pump-up playlist, you want to get right to it instead of having to hit ‘play’ every time. At the same time, you probably don’t like it when you click on a link, land on a website, and it automatically plays sound that you weren’t expecting. In fact, in Chrome a significant number of autoplays are paused, muted, or have their tab closed within six seconds by people who don’t want them. That’s why we’re announcing a new policy on Chrome desktop to block unwanted autoplays.”
Lifehacker: Mute Every Website Automatically with This Chrome Extension
Lifehacker: Mute Every Website Automatically with This Chrome Extension. “Letting you mute entire websites in Chrome may be the best upgrade Google ever made to the browser, but it could still be better. Sure, muting every site with annoying pop-up videos is great, but what if you didn’t have to deal any audio at all? Thanks to AutoMute, you’ll never have to hear another peep out of your browser ever again.”
CNET: Google Chrome to block autoplay videos from January
CNET: Google Chrome to block autoplay videos from January. “Google is being the ultimate pal: In an upcoming update to its Chrome web browser, it will block any autoplay video that has sound. ‘Starting in Chrome 64,’ an official blog post explained, “‘autoplay will be allowed when either the media won’t play sound, or the user has indicated an interest in the media.'” YAY!
CNET: Google Chrome makes it easy to mute annoying auto-play audio
CNET: Google Chrome makes it easy to mute annoying auto-play audio. “Sometimes the best advances are the simplest. Google Chrome is testing a feature to make it easier than ever to mute audio from websites. The new feature is available in Google Chrome Canary, a version of Chrome aimed at developers and early adopters.”