This is a shitty pattern that news sites(huffpo, espn etc.), especially, have bought into. You open a series of news stories across a half dozen tabs expecting text stories. You get auto-playing videos across tabs accompanying each text news story.
Just for this reason I am for a browser-level default block on auto audio/video playing. Let me unblock it at the domain level(ie. youtube).
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This is a shitty pattern that news sites(huffpo, espn etc.), especially, have bought into. You open a series of news stories across a half dozen tabs expecting text stories. You get auto-playing videos across tabs accompanying each text news story.
Just for this reason I am for a browser-level default block on auto audio/video playing. Let me unblock it at the domain level(ie. youtube).
I had to install flashblock after scrambling to find the source of audio/video on Techcrunch. Ugh.
The sad thought that we will have to run HTML5-video-and-audio-block soon enough just hit me.
Or even just click to play every time. YouTube is much nicer when you can open multiple tabs and not have them start autoplaying in the background.