For several months, Google has teased some updates for Chrome that aim to make surfing the web slightly less annoying. And on Thursday, Chrome developers announced that you can now update your browser and choose to mute those annoying autoplay videos on websites. The update, Chrome 64 beta, also prevents malicious redirects, and a whole lot more.
The biggest news about the Chrome 64 beta is that it now features several enhanced methods for circumventing ads that harm users’ browsing experience. The feature that everyone will be able to love is that it’s now very easy to mute autoplay videos with sound across a whole website with just a couple of clicks. Once you’ve downloaded the beta, go to a page that autoplays video with sound—here’s one. Right beside the URL text field at the top of the browser, you should see either a lower-case “i” or a green lock icon. Click that, and you should get a dropdown menu like this:
