Wow, I'm really grateful to see positive Afrikan resources on HN!
I closed the tab as soon as the audio started playing automatically. If I want to watch a video or listen to an audio clip, I will indicate that by pressing a play button. Until then, please stop shoving your unwanted sounds into my ear holes.
Apologies. Set to not autoplay
I understand your point, but in this case it's a direct link to a podcast that you would normally reach through the main website or a mailing list - for normal visitors autoplay is the wanted behaviour.