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 ...

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For both Chrome and Safari, I tried some of the guides on how to get this annoying behavior to stop and there doesn't seem to be a surefire way to do it. My point of reference is cnn.com. I've tried ...

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, ...