Uninvited and super annoying audio starts playing within 10 seconds when I open this page. And not just one, but two audio streams overlapping each other. Took me a minute to figure out why my background music suddenly went to shit. Didn't expect Harpers website to be so spammy. I have adblock and made no difference.
That's funny, I disabled Adblock but still didn't notice anything autoplaying. I do share your frustration with the Harper's website though, it's a great magazine but their digital strategy is really backwards. I even went so far as to email the owner of the magazine about it, and he responded by mailing me a hard-copy of a journal article about how people absorb information more readily in print than online -- which I found strangely charming but it also implied that the problem starts at the top...
