[zaidf]

This is a shitty pattern that news sites(huffpo, espn etc.), especially, have bought into. You open a series of news stories across a half dozen tabs expecting text stories. You get auto-playing videos across tabs accompanying each text news story.

Just for this reason I am for a browser-level default block on auto audio/video playing. Let me unblock it at the domain level(ie. youtube).

[mikegioia]

I had to install flashblock after scrambling to find the source of audio/video on Techcrunch. Ugh.

[Rovanion]

The sad thought that we will have to run HTML5-video-and-audio-block soon enough just hit me.

[philwelch]

Or even just click to play every time. YouTube is much nicer when you can open multiple tabs and not have them start autoplaying in the background.