Re:How does YouTube unmute ads? Can this be disabled?
by hack_fraud13 on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @11:25AM
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Wow that is unbelievably user-hostile design. I'm not able to recreate this behavior on my Mac (Ventura 13.6.3) or Chrome (Version 130.0.6723.117). Are you running a different OS/version of Chrome?
Anyway if I can get it to trigger the unmute I think I'd try the following:
> userscript in Chrome that blocks access to system settings
> userscript that automatically mutes volume when new page is loaded
> (lame GUI way) check system settings in mac for app restrictions
> (super hacky) write a bash script that perpetually mutes volume
This is a bit of a tangent but it's odd you're having this problem since Mac's tend to be pretty locked down with 3rd party permissions. I'm having trouble write now writing a bash script just to toggle the natural scrolling setting on a mouse.
Anyway if I can get it to trigger the unmute I think I'd try the following:
> userscript in Chrome that blocks access to system settings
> userscript that automatically mutes volume when new page is loaded
> (lame GUI way) check system settings in mac for app restrictions
> (super hacky) write a bash script that perpetually mutes volume
This is a bit of a tangent but it's odd you're having this problem since Mac's tend to be pretty locked down with 3rd party permissions. I'm having trouble write now writing a bash script just to toggle the natural scrolling setting on a mouse.