Can I turn these off? I got a radio station that comes on full blast. I got news sites that think you want video when you click on and think you can handle volume at 10!!
I can’t, and I have got complaints from neighbors. What can I do?
Simplest option is don’t go to those sites.
Second simplest is to turn your system volume down and only turn it up if you want to hear anything.
Or wear headphones just partially inserted in your ears.
Or maybe you need to update your audio driver.
Or if you’re using Firefox, use NoScript. That can block the scripts that start the audio/video. You can reduce your volume and then temporarily enable the scripts to get the audio/video.
Sounds like it’s a pain in the ass. Really shouldn’t be.
The root of the problem is that a lot of the web content that people go to is streaming video/audio. Youtube, Vine, various pron sites, Hulu, Netflix, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, etc. How does your browser know the difference between that and CNN autoplaying a video, or an embedded video in an ad? Most people want the first ones to auto play, but not the ads, and only some people want CNN and ESPN to auto play videos embedded in articles. There’s no one way that will make everyone happy.
I’m bumping this because I think there has to be a technological fix that should be made available to users…someday anyway.
Salon has a stream that comes up every time you scroll past it on your way up or down the page, at maximum volume. I can’t imagine why anyone would not be mega annoyed. When it hits you can almost hear it in the next apartment from mine.
If my vol controls are already up I imagine it could do damage to my speakers, my ears and/or my relations with my neighbors. Seems ridiculous to me.
It might make everyone happy if: you had to opt in to an ad stream or unwanted stream; if it came on at no volume or low volume instead of max volume…
I can’t imagine this is a problem with no solution. But it is not reasonable to expect users to turn off the volume every time they surf into another site. Nor is it reasonable to assume that any user knows where or when this might come up and be a problem, and therefore exercise “prior restraint” so that it doesn’t happen.
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True, the browser doesn’t know the difference. But the programmer does.
I get very frustrated by news sites that don’t distinguish between video and text. I click on an interesting headline, and I first have to wait a few seconds for the video. to load, and then it takes even more time until I hear the interesting part of the story. I would MUCH prefer a text story, where it comes on-screen right away, and then I can skim it quickly. The videos should be more clearly marked as such.
Is this attitude a function of me being an elderly fart? Why do youngsters prefer to spend a whole few minutes getting just an overview of the information?
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I uninstalled Pandora because it kept coming on by itself. That worked!