You missed the part where they first link to an external site, that they presumably have full control of.
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Ahh indeed I did
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I just wanna mention that i took off the nyancat, i too started to be annoyed by itā¦
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You say this with such confidenceā¦ As if the rest of the mod team couldnāt just put it back on there for you any time we felt like it 
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A) Autoplay is a bad idea, there are plenty situations where I check OGS in public (not work) and I donāt want noises to be heard. Personally, I have them disabled by default. Headphones is not a solution because of several safety or comfort factors. If I wait at the bus stop in the evening, I donāt wear headphones. If I cook and need to check for frying sounds while doing other things (eg checking OGS) I donāt wear headphones. Therefore, I do expect a sound disabling feature in a modern website.
B) If profiles contain a personalized picture and a personalised tagline, I immediately assume the feature is allowed some degree of personal approach. I canāt claim Iām surprised if I see personalisation on a personalizeable feature! That said, since we need to check playersā personal stats, I suggest a window specifically about them. E.g. āclick here for opponent statsā without going to their profile. I personally donāt like bells and whistles in profiles and Iād like not to see them when I simply need to check stats.
C) My expectation is the stones to be black and white on traditional wood textures and I consider variations in goban colours a bug, please remove all the modern aspects because they offend my cultural radar. Only the OGS āboard directorsā may reply to me, ālesserā users will be ignored, especially the non-paying ones. (Feel insulted? I would.)
D) If we really want the OGS site to be impersonal and look like a government tax-office Q&A website, I suggest we also remove 85% of the forum threads.
E) Ex-Facebook now Meta uses a lot of policies and tactics that I donāt care much to see on OGS. Iād be disheartened to learn that OGS is using meta as their business compass.
F) Have more fun, less fuss!
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Popups are never the solution. Especially since I never keep cookies. 
If someone really doesnāt want audio to play, heās gonna mute the device heās using, not look for some obscure setting on the website.
I wonder why people are so dead-set on inverting the learning experience.
Real world: āOh shit, I didnāt know it worked this way. Iāll have to be more careful next time!ā
??? world: āOh shit, I didnāt know it worked this way. Someoneās gonna have to do something about this so I donāt get caught off guard next time!ā
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Well to chip in, I could have audio on for plenty of reasons, such as because Iām listening to music.
But most importantly I may have it on because unexpected audio on a webpage is extremely rare, so it never would occur to me that I should mute my laptop. It used to happen years ago, but nowadays itās kind of an implicit standard that people do not want that to happen, so it disappeared.
Now ok, itās just a tiny handful of profiles anyway so I personally donāt care much, but I can understand people being surprised and annoyed with OGS breaching this untold rule.
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The difference is, IRL my coffee cup exists once on my desk, online thereās at least a dozen of them, some filled with vodka.
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I donāt like it either, but YouTube is one of the most popular sites in the world and has automatic audio playing on most profile pages.
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Itās a video/ audio site tho.
I hate it and found an extention for it, but itās something somewhat expected.
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Well, here weāre on a gaming site, for which audio (even music!) is normal, and OGS games do indeed all have audio playing by default.
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SAcrilEge!!!1111!!!
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A gaming 
art of love site (or a sport site for another classification )
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I donāt know how some in this thread can be free of all those annoying video advertising which fill every gap in all the sites I visit. Sometimes they are even hovering above the site.
Itās literally impossible for me to do some net surfing without being assaulted by those ad.
Am I the only one?
Unexpected audio for me is absolutely impossible since at this point I expect to have annoying automatic audio in every public site.
Iām talking about news, weather, cooking recipes, hobbies and children related contents.
Video ads are everywhere and I spend a lot of time trying to click those nasty incredibly small X to close them.
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Thatās really not my case at least.
Your point seems to be mostly ads rather than actual features - perhaps itās a matter of which adblocker you use ?
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Ad blocker.
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I use āAd Block Plus for Samsungā and it doesnāt seem to do much.
On my PC a similar tool is able to block even ads inside YouTube. On my phone it doesnāt work well.
Any suggestions?
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Oh phoneā¦ I surf very specific things on my phone, for that very reason. There are some browsers that are supposed to block things like that, but Iām a lazy Google customer and Iām not willing to give up my lazy ways.
I havenāt found anything helpful, open to suggestions. 
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Brave browser.
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- Donāt use a āmobile browserā and expect anything good to come from it - they are all garbage (after Mozilla castrated its mobile FireFox version, anyway)
- Use FireFox on a PC, go to top right burger menu > Settings > Extensions & Themes (bottom left of your screen)
- Search for and add the following extension: āuBlock Originā (blacklist-based content blocker). If you want to fine-tune your blocking, also install āuMatrixā (whitelist-based content blocker).
Nota bene: uBlock Origin will work perfectly out-of-the-box, but a virgin uMatrix will break most of the websites youāre using. Most of the time, you need to allow every single (necessary) source by hand until everything works to your satisfaction. Once youāve done that, you can save your settings for that particular site by clicking the lock symbol. Itās pretty intuitive. If itās red in the matrix, itās actively blocked; if itās pink, itās blocked by default; if itās light green, itās allowed by default, if itās dark green, itās actively allowed.
Enjoy ad- and malicious-content-free Internet (including Youtube and, most of the time, Twitch).
I hate a lot about what YT has become in the past few years, so I just always modded it. This is what it looks like right now: mytube ā ImgBB
That said, FireFox also by default blocks autoplay audio, which would have solved OPs annoyance before he even knew it was there.
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