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Chrome Will Soon Let You Permanently Mute Websites (androidpolice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the a-welcome-feature dept.

Google Chrome will soon allow users to permanently mute websites, a feature that will cheer millions who suffer through autoplaying videos on (annoying) websites every day. From a report: According to Google's Francois Beaufort, the Chrome team is still experimenting with this feature. In the early version, the sound toggle is in the page info popup, which you can access by clicking on the far left of the address bar. That's either an info icon or a "Secure" label for sites that have HTTPS enabled. There are already various toggles in there now for things like Flash, JavaScript, notifications, and so on. Soon, a sound toggle will be added that works in the same way. Sites on which you disable sound will remain that way until you turn them back on.

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  1. change the default...opt in to sound, not opt out. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd love to have the default be "no sound", and only enable it for sites I want sound out of (netflix, youtube, etc).

  2. Re:Finally by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But why should I have to mute each site individually? Why can't "no autoplay sound" be turned off globally? I never want any site to autoplay (either audio or video). There used to be plugins that disable autoplay, but apparently none of them work anymore because Google changed Chrome to intentionally break them, which seems ... evil.

  3. Re:Finally by sexconker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But why should I have to mute each site individually? Why can't "no autoplay sound" be turned off globally? I never want any site to autoplay (either audio or video). There used to be plugins that disable autoplay, but apparently none of them work anymore because Google changed Chrome to intentionally break them, which seems ... evil.

    Mute Chrome in your OS?

  4. Re:Not good enough by sexconker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My favorite is when the site throws an autoplaying video at you, you stop it, then you scroll down to read whatever you wanted to read, and the video resizes and moves to the bottom right corner, following you as you scroll down the page. And of course it'll start playing again when it feels like it.

  5. Fixing the wrong problem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What I want is a way to DISABLE AUTOPLAY in the first place. Not have the video start playing, but with the sound muted. I don't want the video sucking up my bandwidth in the first place.

    Why can I not get a "just don't autoplay videos" toggle? Or, better, a "only autoplay videos from these specific sites" whitelist? Why should I need an extension to get what seems like obvious functionality that should be in the core app? Any why, when the core app developers decide to address the issue, do they address the wrong thing?

  6. Re:Finally by taustin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't care who is at fault, there is fault. If a web site doesn't work for shit, it doesn't work for shit.