How to stop videos on news sites from overriding my speaker mute

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Published on 2012-11-12T16:22:32Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 17:05 UTC
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Just recently I have found when clicking on news stories that their advertisement and news videos start up automatically and that if I have set the speakers to mute that it overrides this. I then re-mute the speakers and a few seconds later it is overriden and the sound starts up again. I think this will be a growing common problem as it seems a "new trick" by hungry media sites. Can someone please let me know how to stop it happening?

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