>As for Chrome's tab area, the little speaker icon no longer mutes sites as of Chrome 70 or so. Thank you for mentioning this so I can retain my sanity. It wo

>As for Chrome's tab area, the little speaker icon no longer mutes sites as of Chrome 70 or so. Thank you for mentioning this so I can retain my sanity. It would have never occurred to me that Google would remove a useful feature like that. (Although I can see that a right-click-mute is more useful when there are dozens of tabs that narrow the widths too much to show a speaker icon.) It must have been pure coincidence that I haven't had a need to mute a webpage since Chrome 70. I was puzzled why both my Firefox and Chrome couldn't stop the video and your comment about the javascript click events made me look at my DNS logs. I noticed that my firewall blocks a lot of sites like "js.spotx.tv", "ntv.io", etc that's loaded by "denverpost.com" -- therefore I may be preventing some (ad) scripts from running that makes the GUI "fixes" you mentioned.