Why do Videos have to Automatically Play in Chrome?

The question of the day is "why do videos in Chrome have to automatically play?" It completely sucks, but I do not want to give up Chrome! Every time I land on a page at CNN, there is a video that starts to play. It starts with an advertisement, is Google getting a kickback from them?

Now I know that you can find some plugins that purport to block videos. I have not found one that works satisfactorily. And that is because the place you need to stop this is during page rendering, not afterwards. Come to think of it, Chrome does allow you to do that for sound, so why not video? I have been computer programming since 1976, and with all that we have learned in over 44 years I simply cannot see that adding an option to the browser engine to block videos during rendering would be all that difficult.

PDF Markup in Microsoft Teams Class Assignments for Windows

If you use Microsoft Teams to participate in a class, either the browser interface or the desktop application, marking up PDF documents to submit for an assignment is not built-in. To be fair, marking up any type of document you are given is not possible, because your documents do not exist inside of Teams. You have to do that outside of Teams, using the file on your computer.

These instructions are specific for marking up a PDF assignment using your Windows PC. Microsoft Windows does not have a built-in PDF markup tool, so you will need to get one. To keep things realistic, my recommendation is to get Drawboard PDF. It costs $10 in the Window's App Store and does a bang-up job! https://www.drawboard.com/pdf/.

PDF Markup in Microsoft Teams Class Assignments for Mac

If you use Microsoft Teams to participate in a class, either the browser interface or the desktop application, marking up PDF documents to submit for an assignment is not built-in. To be fair, marking up any type of document you are given is not possible, because your documents do not exist inside of Teams. You have to do that outside of Teams, using the file on your computer.

These instructions are specific for marking up a PDF assignment using your Mac. I use the markup tools in Mac Preview, but of course you can purchase other tools if you want to.