What they didn’t do was to enable the ability to stop audio from a tab. With the release of Chrome version 32 in February last year browser Google recognized this problem and included an icon on tabs that appears if the tab contents are playing audio, like this: This is because all of their pages have a video player at the top right of the page that not only starts playing their lame news videos after a delay but also plays ads which, even though they have controls for volume and pause, the controls don’t work for the ads! If the site that’s annoying you is the UK’s International Business Times then it’s doubly irritating. Even more annoying is content that plays sometime after you’ve loaded the site and, if you’re at all like me, you then have to scramble to find the tab and hope to be able to stop whatever it is from playing. If there’s one Web site marketing technique that’s really, really annoying, it’s audio or video content that automatically plays when you load a URL.
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