Date: 12/09/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: web

More and more people are adding auto-play audio/video to their websites & blogs in the mistaken belief that "it's cool". No, sorry people, it's just plain annoying. Trouble is that you often don't know that it's downloading until it's too late.

Is there a plugin (or any other way) to block these annoying audio/video clips? Not the whole website, just the noise. Ideally prevent the download (these clips can be quite large) but failing that, just don't start playing automagically.

Part of the problem is that I'm looking at a lot of new blogs as I accumulate credits with BlogClicker, BlogExplosion and BlogTraffic - even though some of them offer an option to skip sites with audio it's down to the blog's author to identify their site as having such content, and many just don't do it.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/48682.html