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Do you remember the old internet pop up ads that would play sound and music at 100% volume? And there was no way to mute a tab back in the day (tab browsing was in its infancy), so you’d have to rush to turn down the volume or find that popup and kill it.
Yeah I don’t want those to come back lol.
There were definitely still ways to block pop-ups, and if you were really worried you just left your speakers at 0% volume 100% of the time.
If you leave your speakers on 100% all the time you're just asking for it.
The popups and auto play videos are just embedded directly into the page now.
as someone who never really experienced the old internet, all I hear are the positive sides and I feel like the guy in xkcd 239
Yeah, but turning down the volume was easy. You just turn the knob on the computer speakers.