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I uninstalled Flash on my work and home Macs the other day. I must say, it cuts way down on any videos I watch. Pretty much everything except youtube is Flash. Oh well. Not reinstalling it, though. Too much risk.

Greats side effect: no more autoplay videos on random news sites.

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    no more autoplay videos on random news sites.

Firefox has built-in "click to play" for plugins. There are extensions for all other browsers.

Oddly, that doesn't help for CNN. God help you if you try to read a news article at work…

I either have headphones in or volume muted, on all computers at all times. If I'm about to unplug headphones I quick mute first. No problems with unwanted audio.

You may have allow and remembered. It click to plays for me.

(if you haven't checked that, click the brick to see)

Chrome has the option built in.

Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy / Content Settings

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