I hate this. There really should be a setting in browser so that I don't allow sound from any website unless I explicitly click the speaker icon in tab bar. Annoying as hell.
If you use Firefox, go to about:config and set "media.autoplay.enabled" to false. A few web sites throw a fit when they can't autoplay, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
It's probably one of the worst faux pars you can make in UX. I'd appreciate it if they wouldn't announce to everyone in the bathroom what I'm browsing
YES!!! Thank you! :)
EDIT: though it's not exactly what I had in mind... I want content to autoplay as normal, just the sound should be muted until I unmute it...
That’s actually a default in the latest nightly. Pretty nice IMO.
It'll be a default on Firefox 55. Or you can try the current Nightly.