If you’re like most people you hate it when a video begins playing automatically just as soon as you load a web page into your browser.

Yes, it’s true that many of the most popular sites allow you to toggle a setting to disable auto-playing videos, but not all of them do.

What’s more, it’s a major hassle having to wade through every site’s settings pages to just to disable auto-playing videos, especially on sites that you don’t visit all that often.  [Read more…]