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Warning: CNN has autoplaying video with sound enabled.
by biggc 7y ago
Warning: CNN has autoplaying video with sound enabled.
- jayd16 7y agoWhat browser still allows this?
- grenoire 7y agoI think there is a new way to bypass this; FF recently missed an autoplay video on Bloomberg (?). Arms race as usual.
- miscPerson 7y agoIsn’t that “hacking” in the cyber crime sense? I know Bloomberg et al don’t appreciate my attempting to bypass their technical controls and cause undesired effects on their systems, and would likely file a criminal complaint. Why is it legal for advertisers to write code which is meant to bypass a system control and exceed their authorization? I think we need a browser that automates CFAA complaints to the FBI when a company engages in behavior that would be illegal for an individual — such as hacking your audio. I believe at the point where a company writes code with the explicit purpose of bypassing your control of the computer, eg autoplaying a video despite technical measures being taken to prohibit that behavior, it constitutes a breach of the CFAA.
- paulmd 7y agoYou can't autostart it when the page loads anymore, but you can autostart it as soon as the user interacts with the page in any way (including scroll)
- grenoire 7y agoMy settings for these are not the defaults, I didn't get the option to block autoplays on the domain menu.
- dawnerd 7y agoWhat's more annoying, if you run an adblocker, their player will stall while it tries to load and ad and you get surprised ~20 seconds later with sound blasting at you.
- mmmuhd 7y agoUse a better browser
- giarc 7y agohttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mute-tabs-by-url/bpokcenamldgbghabnklpmbkkcgcgdld https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mute-tabs-by-url/b...