Also the delay the author mentions seems to be related to the touch bar. I have a 2012 macbook with actual physical buttons where the touch bar would be, and hi

Also the delay the author mentions seems to be related to the touch bar. I have a 2012 macbook with actual physical buttons where the touch bar would be, and hitting F10 mutes the audio immediately. The bigger problem, though, is that modern web browsers put website developers before users. It's a user agent. It should allow the user to control everything. I honestly wish they asked for permission per-domain before a website is allowed to use <video> and <audio> tags.