Chrome Now Lets You Mute Noisy Sites Forever: Here's How

[AndrewFreedman]

Version 64 of Google Chrome lets you mute entire sites to thwart annoying autoplay videos.

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[jodath79]

When will this feature come to the Google Chrome web browswer on Chromebooks?

 

[AndrewFreedman]

When will this feature come to the Google Chrome web browswer on Chromebooks?

The beta channel for Chrome OS was just updated to version 64, so it may be a couple of weeks until you see a stable version. See dev notes here: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/01/beta-channel-update-for-chrome-os_26.html

 

[velocityg4]

The irony being an autoplay ad started when reading the article.

I'd rather they made it mute by default. Even better, block videos from loading at all unless I clear a site as OK. It's a real pain having to clear sites in uMatrix and NoScript. Since it often isn't clear which scripts are necessary for a page to work and which are annoying ads or trackers.

 

[AndrewFreedman]

The irony being an autoplay ad started when reading the article.

I'd rather they made it mute by default. Even better, block videos from loading at all unless I clear a site as OK. It's a real pain having to clear sites in uMatrix and NoScript. Since it often isn't clear which scripts are necessary for a page to work and which are annoying ads or trackers.

That's not good. Videos on Tom's Guide aren't supposed to autoplay with sound. I'm going to forward this onto the appropriate people make sure this gets looked into.

 

[jodath79]

Thanks for the reply! 🙂