Data Doctors: How to block website autoplay videos

Q: Is there a way to keep websites from automatically blaring their advertising videos?

A: It’s amazing how many websites think that irritating their visitors with an automatically played video is a good idea. Most people searching the web are looking for text; if they sought video, they’d use YouTube instead.

If you’re one of those publishers causing this irritation, you might want to rethink your strategy as research shows that it adds to cognitive load and distracts the user from their intended task...