Social media platforms allow users to manually disable video autoplay settings. Disabling autoplay requires navigating distinct menus across apps and devices. Users can protect viewing experience by ...

If you find autoplay media content annoying while browsing, then this feature to block it using Microsoft’s Edge browser will catch your fancy. With this new feature, you can set your browser to block ...

Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser is adding a new feature, with better automatic blocking of autoplay videos and media on websites. Announced on the Edge Insider site, Microsoft has revealed an ...

Our always-online digital society comes with a lot of perks ― and some undeniably horrific downsides. The latter was on display Wednesday when videos of the fatal shooting of conservative activist ...

Beginning next year, Chrome will only autoplay media without sound, or after users have clearly expressed interest in said media. “Not all users have the same preferences for autoplay media, so Google ...

Ad management firm Mediavine has removed autoplay and all muted in-stream inventory across its 10,000 publisher partner websites. In February, the company’s achieved full compliance with Interactive ...

For years, putting a DVD into your Windows PC was as simple as dropping a disc into the tray and letting the movie play. Windows Media Player would spin up, autoplay would kick in, and before you knew ...

It's possible to accidentally watch some graphic videos from major news stories this week. Because autoplay is turned on by default on social media sites like X, Facebook and Bluesky, many users are ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Social media platforms allow users to manually disable video autoplay settings. Disabling autoplay requires navigating distinct menus ...