[forgettableuser]

I am now a victim of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it".

I hated Flash. I either avoided installing it or used a Flash blocker. So I always managed to avoid the auto-playing problem when the Internet primarily used Flash for everything annoying.

Now that Flash is about dead and everything is HTML5 now, neither of these techniques work any more to avoid auto-playing.

[username223]

I too long for the good old days, when web garbage was mostly confined to Flash and popups (and punch-the-monkey GIFs). Now it's all an HTML5 wasteland full of warring JavaScript. Good job, W3C!