On 2020-04-09, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) <kleen...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
> This is interesting. I see that my Firefox is set to "Block websites from > automatically playing sound". I hadn't realized that, because if I play a > YouTube video or movie trailer in Firefox, I get the sound just fine anyway. > That's confusing, but I'll try changing that permission this afternoon and > see if it works. I think voluntarily clicking on a video on Youtube or watching a Netflix video and enjoying the benefit of the audio track without further ado is not what is meant by blocking websites from *automatically* playing sound, where you're dealing with the notion of non-intentionality on the part of the user (in the case of, let's say, unwanted advertisements and the like). > Thanks again. >
