Every day, new videos beam onto your smartphone that you probably didn’t expect (or want) to watch. Certain services, like TikTok, Instagram, and X, are entirely based on autoplaying videos as soon as ...

Today's multimedia Web pages and blogs are vastly different from those that existed when the Internet began. Businesses now spread their messages to people around the world using a balanced mix of ...

The most annoying thing on the internet these days is the auto-playing videos on websites. These promotional videos are scaled-down and hidden in some corner of a web page. These videos just start ...

Autoplay videos are a frustrating element of the modern web experience. You open a web page and just as you start reading the article, noise starts blaring out of your speakers; or, if the site is ...

Autoplay is maybe not as grating as auto tune, but it sure is annoying. Social networks have been quick to add the "feature" to their offerings lately, with Facebook this week announcing that videos ...

While Google futzes around with your ability to mute and block autoplaying video within the Chrome browser, Microsoft has taken action. Global controls for preventing video from auto-playing within ...

Facepalm: Most people do not like autoplay videos in general. The fact that most major browsers now either mute or block these annoyances by default attests to this claim. Despite their unpopularity, ...