How to prevent audio being enabled by apps for ads

[Android Central Question]

So I've noticed a disturbing trend with apps lately. While I understand and agree that 'free' apps/games have a right to push advertising lately despite having the audio disabled for various apps when they push a video ad the audio gets enabled, which can create some very awkward moments.

Does anyone know of a way to prevent this from happening as the last thing I want to happen when I am 'sneaking' a game in instead of watching the power point from hell is have an ad for weight loss come on full blast.....

 

[Rukbat]

Go into vibrate mode. You can't "turn off audio for ads", since there's no "ad channel", the ads are using the media channel.