{"id":819,"date":"2018-03-12T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tridence.wordpress.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:14:09","slug":"if-youre-not-using-google-chromes-permanent-mute-site-feature-youre-not-using-chrome-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/if-youre-not-using-google-chromes-permanent-mute-site-feature-youre-not-using-chrome-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re not using Google Chrome&#8217;s permanent &#8216;Mute Site&#8217; feature, you&#8217;re not using Chrome at its best."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-820 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tridence.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/5aa2e84b42e1cc495d211549-320-240.jpg\" alt=\"5aa2e84b42e1cc495d211549-320-240\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An update to Google&#8217;s internet browser, Chrome, brought users a lot of new features including the option to mute certain websites permanently.\n<p><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This is an upgrade from the option to &#8220;Mute Tab,&#8221; which was more of a temporary fix for users, since the settings would revert to their defaults if you closed the tab or browser.\n<p><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The update could prevent users from avoiding sites with auto-play videos altogether.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In January, Google Chrome \u2014 the search giant&#8217;s extremely popular web browser \u2014 started rolling out an update with\u00a0<strong>a lot of new features<\/strong>, including the ability to <strong>permanently mute sites<\/strong> that <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">auto-play annoying videos<\/span> every time you visit.<\/p>\n<p>Google Chrome updates usually consist of bug fixes and other necessary security-related adjustments that make a minimal difference in your day-to-day browsing. But every now and then, Chrome serves up a little gem, and this is one of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google Chrome users can now right-click on a tab and select &#8220;Mute Site&#8221; to make sure that the site never plays sound.<\/strong>\u00a0You can also click on the padlock on the left end of the address bar, scroll down to &#8220;Sound,&#8221; and select &#8220;Block.&#8221; I found sites would remain muted even when visiting them in an incognito tab, which means only clearing out your cache would undo the site-wide mute.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this means if you\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0want to hear a video from of your muted sites, you&#8217;ll have to &#8220;Unmute Site,&#8221; done in the same manner. But now, you won&#8217;t have to worry about visiting websites that will interrupt your music or general browsing experience. Prior to this update, there were some sites that I avoided completely for this sole reason.<\/p>\n<p>Before Google added this option to mute an entire website, there was the option to &#8220;Mute Tab,&#8221; but that fix was temporary: If you closed the tab or browser, the settings would revert to their defaults, and you&#8217;d continually need to remember to mute the tab each time. Sometimes the best option was just muting my entire computer or phone, but then I&#8217;d miss out on my Spotify playlist.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve closed your Google Chrome browser in the last month or so, this feature should be in your browser already since this was an automatic update. You&#8217;ll know if a Chrome update is pending if those three dots in the top right-hand corner of your window are any color besides grey: They can be green, red, or orange, depending on how long its been since the update was released.<\/p>\n<p>I highly advise making use of the &#8220;Mute Site&#8221; feature. It&#8217;ll change your relationship with certain websites, and make for a less frustrating web-browsing experience overall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Author:\u00a0\u00a0Prachi Bhardwaj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to Google&#8217;s internet browser, Chrome, brought users a lot of new features including the option to mute certain websites permanently. This is an upgrade from the option to &#8220;Mute Tab,&#8221; which was more of a temporary fix for users, since the settings would revert to their defaults if you closed the tab or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30,34,56,110],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-socialmedia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}