Wanna banish autoplay videos from your browser?
We've all been there: You're casually surfing the web when your speakers suddenly start booming with the sound of a video you never asked to play.
Ugh. Talk about obnoxious.
Awful as they may be, unfortunately, autoplay videos are all the rage right now. Visit many a major news site (hi, CNN!), and you'll quickly discover that clicking on a story is an unwitting form of consent to start streaming a video.
Not long ago, all you had to do was disable Flash in your desktop browser to keep this kind of tomfoolery from taking place. But now that more sites have moved to HTML5 for their autoplay annoyances, putting the kibosh on unwanted intrusions takes a little more effort.
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