Safari to add a mute button?

Apple Insider reports on an Apple patent filing that details methods and controls for muting websites that “thrust undesired audio playback into the browsing experience”.

When a user browses [a website], various audio signals may be presented in the browser application. These audio signals can be music, advertising jingles, noises, sound effects, speech, etc,” Apple explains. “Concurrently, the user may be listening to music from the user’s personal music library. In some cases, audio signals from audio sources may interfere with the listening enjoyment of the user.

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