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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. So weird by PingSpike · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This topic of auto play video nightmares comes up all the time. Very annoying stuff I agree. But apparently everyone has just been suffering with it by the comments I always see.

    I installed Flash Control https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... forever ago and never see them. Despite its name, it blocks HTML5 videos as well. Everything is click to play, as it should be. I whitelist youtube and moved on with my life. Are others not aware of these kinds of extensions?

    This chrome addition is nice and everything...but auto-muted videos are presumably still loading, using cpu time and bandwidth.

  2. Thank you! by ngc5194 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    THANK YOU! The current crop of ads is taking us in a direction which is in danger of making the web unusable. I realize that ads are necessary to pay for content, and I'm not opposed to that, but autoplay and scripting in these ads is evil. The memory and processing power web browsers consume, largely in powering these ads, is truly insane. If I see an autoplay ad for a product I buy, I stop buying it. If a web site insists on showing me ads that consume a boat load of my system memory, I stop visiting that site. This war of escalation for our attention has gotten out of hand. The only way to put the brakes on this is to make the most egregious offenders realize that their participation in this war is unprofitable.

  3. Do it the other way around by Solandri · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sites on which you disable sound will remain that way until you turn them back on.

    No, do it the other way. Let me disable sound on all sites unless I opt to enable it for a specific site. That way I'm not playing whack-a-mole with a million random websites I might one day click. Instead I only get sound on the few dozen websites I frequent which need sound, and the occasional random site I visit where I want sound I can temporarily turn it on.