There are settings in all the popular browsers that can stop this action.
Other sites have similar settings, but if you can't find what you're after, you can make some changes at the browser level as well.AutoplayStopper via David Nield
While there was, once upon a time, a setting inside Chrome to stop video and audio from autoplaying as soon as a page was loaded, it's now been excised from the browser. To get the same end results you need to turn to a third-party browser extension, and one of the best isIt's free, it's simple to use, and it does the job effectively. Videos still show up onscreen, but you're only shown a static thumbnail—they're not allowed to start playing without your approval.
The AutoplayStopper icon in the Chrome toolbar keeps track of how many videos have been blocked. If you right-click on it and choose, you can add particular websites that you want to be exempt from the AutoplayStopper restrictions. There is one setting built into Chrome that you can take advantage of: If there's one particular website that's always interrupting your browsing with audio that starts up automatically, right-click on the browser tab at the top and pickSetting autoplay options in Safari on macOS.
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