Now that I’m working from home for the indefinite future (like so many of us), I have a lot of long Zoom meetings.
I like to do Wanikani reviews during these meetings (who wouldn’t!) but I usually have my WK lesson audio set to autoplay, which is bad for meetings (I do occasionally have to unmute and talk!). And I have to use the computer audio for Zoom, so I can’t just turn my volume down on the computer.
Obviously I can click through to user settings and turn off the audio autoplay, but this is tedious, you have to exit your review session to do it, and then I always forget to turn it back on afterwards.
It seems like it should be fairly simple to create a script that provided just a button that toggled that user setting directly from the reviews page. Any chance someone generous wants to provide that for all us stranded people working from home?
On this topic, I have on multiple occasions tired to sneak in a couple of reviews at work, only to find out my laptop is on full volume and on autoplay ! !
Yep, I have already embarrassed myself enough with my Japanese husband when I accidentally have my phone volume on and I open up the app while waiting for the microwave or something and it busts out something suddenly like 汗臭い!
This is why I know I’m not to be trusted while on video calls.
Is there any way to prevent websites from autoplaying videos? I’m sick of CNN’s autoplay videos that often has nothing to do with the article. But sometimes I do want to manually click on play and so I don’t want to mute the site.
I am using Brave, which mutes everything by default. Videos still play, but I don’t hear anything, so it’s not as bad. I don’t know of any extension or anything
Yeah, it’s crazy that it’s not a standard feature. I used to get so mad whenever a video started playing (with audio). Video is also annoying, but I can live with it
Doesn’t firefox already have it (albeit hidden in a bunch of settings). Going to options->privacy and security->permissions (near the bottom)->autoplay then setting it to block both audio and video seems to do the trick for most sites.