Usually if I’m trying not to disturb someone, like watching something on my phone in bed while my wife’s sleeping I’ll keep audio on mute and have captions on, or doing something else, like having having sports on TV while I do laundry, listening to the announcers then turning to look at the replay when something especially exciting happens.
I often listen to youtube videos as background noise, not looking or rarely looking at the screen
Yes
Sorry, I tend to over share, ever since my mother died proceeds to trauma dump life story
I almost exclusively browse or view content with no volume at all. I can only stand so much awful music, AI voice, dubbed sounds, effects or laughter. Other content where I’m looking for info, I’ll only listen to enough to know whether the video is worth digging into, and start fast forwarding or leave.
Most modern social media (TikTok, Snapchat, etc…) are only barely tolerable with the sound muted. WITH sound enabled they are a war crime.
