You go to a website or click on a weblink and a page opens with blaring audio and distracting videos. Web surfers have to mute the page or pause the video to stop the annoyance. Sometimes clicking the pause button opens the advertiser’s webpage.
Thankfully the makers of web browsers are starting to take action.
In June, Apple announced that the Safari web browser for macOS High Sierra, due out this fall, will block autoplay videos.
Also, Google is testing a feature for its Chrome browser that will allow users to block sound on a per-domain basis.
“A lot of awful things can happen on the internet, but few are as terrible as landing on a website that automatically plays videos with sound,” Android Police writer Ryan Whitwam said in a post. “Thankfully, this is something Google is addressing in a future update to Chrome.”
Your move, Firefox and Opera.
Photo: Mute setting on Google Chrome browser. (Google)
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