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CNET is still autoplaying videos with sound in 2019.

I thought companies already figured out in the 90s that there's nothing more annoying than that. I guess I was mistaken.

Assuming you've switched back to Firefox, you can fully disable autoplay across the board.

Visit about:config?filter=autoplay and change media.autoplay.allow-muted to false.

there are ways around anything, but it should be the default behavior...

autoplaying videos in the 90s? on 56k connections? i think autoplaying videos on CNET is definitely more of a 00s thing