Just add it to the Chrome browser (or the Chromium operating system) and enjoy the silence. One of these extensions is called, straightforwardly, Disable HTML5 Autoplay. That capability is provided by third-party extensions that you can add to Chrome free of charge. (But Facebook does has an option to turn it off - see below.) How to Block Auto-Play in Your BrowserĬhrome does not have a bulit-in HTML5 auto-play blocker.
Apple Safari and Microsoft’s browsers (Internet Explorer and Edge for Windows 10) do not. As of today, only Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox offer any defense against the auto-play demon. Unfortunately, it also comes with an auto-play option.Īs more Webmasters adopt HTML5, more auto-playing nuisances will arise. The ability to create and display audio and video natively in HTML5 is a popular new feature. HTML5 is a highly advanced scripting language with features built right into it that used to be provided by add-on software. It was published by the World Wide Web Consortium in October, 2014. Where is it coming from, and how can we get rid of it again? Here are the answers.Īuto-playing multimedia returned in the latest version of HTML, the HyperText Markup Language that is used to create Web pages. I thought we users had won total victory, at last, when Google and Mozilla disabled Flash auto-play by default in their browsers.īut now the scourge of auto-play is back. Apple Safari has never supported Flash at all. Since at least 2010, Microsoft Internet Explorer has had an option to disable the Flash plugin, widely used to implement multimedia, except on sites where the user has specifically allowed it. The battle against auto-playing video or audio content has been raging for years. I wonder if that’s the outcome the site’s owners had in mind when they decided to accept invisible, auto-playing ads.
So I clicked the Back button and quickly went to another site. But I could not find the source of the irritating voice on that Web page. I wanted to silence my blabbering intruder.
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