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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by drewg123 on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:19PM (#15258909)
I've pretty much stopped going to CNN because of this. I have managed to block a lot of this video by using privacy badger and blocking the underlying CDNs where it is played from. However, I've never been able to block CNN effectively, so I've just given up on them.
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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by astronautjones on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:46PM (#15262065)
They're really bad about it. But I recently discovered that they offer this service:

http://lite.cnn.io/en

I really wish washington post, nyt, etc would offer something similar, and really miss the days where everyone had wap versions available

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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by lamontcg on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:49PM (#15259161)
Newsweek's autoplay is literally cancer. I've got the disable HTML5 autoplay, but the newsweek site is so aggressive about autoplaying that it bugs out the browser.
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Re:Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound by drewg123 on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:39PM (#15260119)
The "just read" chrome extension seems to work pretty well at stopping media playback for Newsweek.
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