Like Chrome, Edge doesn’t let you disable auto-play, but you can ‘limit’ the setting based on how you use websites. Thankfully, Edge differs a little with auto-play content. Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge browser has several similarities with Chrome. Unfortunately, this will allow videos to play, you just won’t be able to hear them. This will mute sound from every website you visit, and you can unmute sites as you desire by right-clicking on a tab and selecting the ‘unmute’ option. If you’re interested, you can learn more about how that works here, or check out the MEI by typing ‘chrome://media-engagement’ into the URL bar of your browser.Īs a workaround, you can mute audio on every website in Chrome by clicking the menu button > Settings > Privacy and security > Site Settings > Additional content settings > Sound > Allow sites to play sound. In short, if users interact with a website in certain ways that meet Google’s criteria, it allows that site to auto-play videos. Chrome tracks how often users interact with media on websites with the ‘Media Engagement Index’ (MEI). That said, Chrome does block some auto-play videos, but there’s not much users can do to control how this works.

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