The rant du jour is autoplay.
I'm a certified olde pharte. I learned how to read at an early age, I've been a reader almost all my life, and when I click on a link to a news story -- I want to read the article. If they want to put up a video and give me the option of viewing it -- whenever I may or may not choose to do so -- that's fine. But these days it seems all embedded videos are set for autoplay. More often than not, I'll be halfway through reading an artcle and, all of a suden, a voice starts blasting at me from my computer speakers. There's nothing on the screen to suggest where it's coming from, so I then have to stop reading, and scoll up and down until I can figure out where the video is that's making the racket, and perhaps silence it. Sometimes they can't even be stopped -- in which case I just close that site and look for an article on the topic on some other web site.
Awhile back I found a way in Firefox to disable autoplay, but it had other effects that were troublesome, so I had to go back and reactivate autoplay. Is there any way to put a stake through the heart of autoplay in Firefox without causing unwanted side effects?
