Pet Peeve of the Day: Websites with videos that automatically start playing the videos. Is there a way to stop it?

Not saying it isn’t annoying. It is.

But nobody is forcing you to visit. If you are buying a product, you can always decide to not shop there as retribution. Send them an email and tell them why you are buying elsewhere.

Just saying you can always shut it off, like TV.

I haven’t seen this before. Do you have an example?

Here’s one: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/phones-watches-glasses-wearable-tech-real-piecyk-172322243.html?desktop_view_default=true

I had 3–4 like this yesterday. Mostly, but not exclusively, on news or informational websites.

^^ This doesn’t auto-start for me. I use Chrome, and have the Flashblock extension, so for me to run this, I need to click on the place where the video is for it to play.

I am sorry I can’t add on how to stop this madness. However I do agree with you that it is very annoying lol. It’s usually advertisements that automatically start up that really get to me. Like when I’m trying to watch video on a site and I have to wait for mini videos with ads on the page to stop before I can watch the my video. Like @tom_g said above me, we probably just need some type of blocking extension to stop this problem

I use Chrome, but not Flashblock. @tom_g

^^ cool. Problem solved.

I’ve gotten good at clicking on the sound icon, somewhere at the bottom of the video, to mute it, without muting sound for the whole computer. Yes, it’s extremely annoying and obnoxious in a way that pop-up windows never were.

MySpace used to do that. Very annoying.