If you often browse different websites, you might have noticed that some of them start playing a video as soon as you land on their page without waiting for your input. This can be quite irritating.

When playing streaming videos using the YouTube application on your iPad, any sound in the video will automatically play through the speakers on your device. Even if you have your iPad's switch set to ...

Facebook videos will soon start automatically playing with sound as you scroll through your News Feed, the company announced Tuesday. Mercifully, the videos won’t play with sound if you have your ...

The Mrs. has some apps that play ads when started. Occasionally one of the ads is a short video. She keeps the device on mute all the time, yet the sound plays on some of these ads. Android has at ...