Disable HTML5 Autoplay

thumbs up!!!

Finally something that works!

This extension has been working amazingly, always! I'm only uninstalling now as it is obsolete, and has been replaced by a new version, which I have now installed. The new version is called Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Reloaded): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/disable-html5-autoplay-re/cafckninonjkogajnihihlnnimmkndgf

I think the most useful extension on Chrome if you use Youtube. Before I have this extension, it happened often that during a meeting I click a link youtube and the video starts. I cannot believe there is no way to disable this natively on Youtube. No the autoplay button at the bottom of each video does not work: it is only to avoid to play the next following video. @Google: do you use YouTube? Does not look so...

WORK!

FYI the extension was blocking my telehealth audio and video (which seem to rely on auto-play), as well as playing videos on sites like the weather channel and cnn (the initial advert would play but the main video wouldn't - again because it was using auto-play to move the process along). My telehealth sessions would work in safari but not chrome and it took some debugging to figure this out. Obviously the extension is not being maintained but if you're wondering whether to use it, I'd say do... Show more

Even thought it's not supported anymore, it still worked better than most autoplay blockers. Now it doesn't work on certain sites though, causing my whole computer to freeze when they try to load and play a live streaming video. Generally works on most sites still, but where it doesn't it fails big.

It supports YouTube and disables its autoplay in 2023. Google Chrome and all other Chromium-based browsers such as Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera used to have a flag setting that allowed us to disable autoplay for the entire browser, but since Google removed it from Chromium, all other browsers just followed the path and removed it as well. No one re-added or worked in a solution, Brave promised to do something about but haven't done anything till now. Nowadays we'll need to rely on dated... Show more

Works great!

Thank you.