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Renegade:
While I love music, and write audio software, I really think that default on/play for audio on the web is a colossally gargantuan mistake. I hate it.

Lately, I've been finding a few sites are blasting away. I never found that a few years ago.

Has anyone else been finding any sites that start audio without a user action?

e.g. http://www.dominos.com.au/

Paul Keith:
To quote:

I am a firm believer that no sound should come out of my browser unless I authorize it first. I am only annoyed when someone's profile page starts playing music without me first hitting play but when an advertisement or some other stupid website starts playing sound without my approval first I am outraged. I fail to understand why a mute button isn't already a feature of any of the major browsers. I installed flash-mute recently but it doesn't support chrome. It would be awesome to see this added to chrome in such a way to block unwanted sound while still allowing you to choose to hear it the same a notification for the pop up blocker comes up. But just a mute button on the corner would be a major improvement as well.
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Source http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=23b774ed8425695e&hl=en

Edit:

Of course this is just another un-marketed feature of Opera that someone would probably copy and popularize eventually:

http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/846/

Renegade:
It's funny how innovation in Opera filters into the other browsers.

Deozaan:
Almost every single My Space page used to do this. I wouldn't know if they still do since I've been fortunate enough to not touch that site for a few years now.

Curt:
3½ years ago I was searching for a video decompiler, picture extractor, and found one at http://www.softwareclub.ws/ The site is still as it was then, nothing has changed. Terrible muzak, unless maybe if you are a (censored for the sake of world peace).

scroll down and click the microscopic "sound on/off" - it will always be on when you enter:

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