Thank you. Saving to read later.

Bookmarked for when I get home.

I avoid some of the local news stations website for the very reason of auto play. I try to catch up on the news in the early morning while my wife is sleeping and don’t want to wake her.

because my monitor screen is just too wide on the right and I need to move it over just to X out the video to be able to read the article that it's hiding. Besides, I am usually listening to something else while I am surfing the web.

I have both a blocker on my antiviral package AND I use Adblock Plus. Does not block these videos from autoplaying

if I remember correctly, you have to be diligent and not click any videos on Chrome, otherwise it re-sets to autoplay. then you will be scratching your head and asking why this quit working. Not to worry--you can easily re-set it.

The guy who came up with this solution is no longer working on it, as he lost interest. Google was supposed to be doing something about it. Not sure if that's come to pass yet; might be this:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/tech/google-chrome-s-v64-brings-permanent-solution-for-web-pages-with-autoplay-videos/story-ygioFmZWepmV8Pwb3jWBYN.html

Why do they assume we want some video playing? Some of us prefer to read our content. I think it's all about approximating a TV ad. Disgusts me: it's always about money.

be an option for you.

Ad blockers don't seem to stop them, but chrome has changed the default setting on new tabs to be muted. So if you click a link, and a tab opens and autoplays a vid, it is muted. That's a LOT better than it was.

They caught hell from advertisers over that. Hopefully they won't regress it.

I never noticed that setting in Chrome.