This assumes you know what you're getting into when you click a link. That's not how the web works. Many sites are unfamiliar and we shouldn't have to keep track of them all.

If we want people to be happy visiting sites unfamiliar to them and encourage diversity in their reading, we need to make sure the defaults are good. You can always adjust them on sites you know well.

I believe the only way for the author to succeed is to provide exactly what the visitors want. If there is an automatic video / audio, it is probably there because the majority of visitors like it. So probably, you are in the minority, but want to forbid something for the majority.

Honestly, I am quite scared by people, who so easily agree to ban or restrict things for the whole population, just to avoid those 3 seconds of a day, during which they may feel uncomfortable.

> I believe you should consume (read / watch / hear) information exactly the way as the author wanted you to consume it

And I believe the exact opposite.

I believe I should consume information exactly the way I want to consume it. The author made it, but so what? Browsers represent the users' interests first and foremost.

A better website? I should look for a better website because some random sites have autoplay, and I don't know yet until I click, and with a straight face you're telling people to, 'well, don't use the site if you don't like it.' Do you not click on various unvisited URLs in your web browsing like the rest of us? I'm growing skeptical that your comment is in good faith and not a trolling attempt.