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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every day, new videos beam onto your smartphone that you probably didn’t expect (or want) to watch. Certain services, like TikTok, Instagram, and X, are entirely based on autoplaying videos as soon as ...

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 ...

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, ...

Months ago, a blog post by the good developers of Chrome let its users know that come January, users would be free of audio from autoplaying videos. As far as we know, those upgrades is still on track ...