As the world’s, you would think Google Chrome would offer some recourse in Settings to thwart autoplay video. The offers a few extensions that perform this function. To natively disable autoplay video in Chrome, however, users must dive into the browser’s experimental features. Disable autoplay video in Chrome Flags are Chrome’s hidden experimental features. As Google warns, “by enabling these features, you could lose browser data or compromise your security or privacy.” So now you’re living on the edge because you don’t want to autoplay videos.
How to Disable Video Autoplay in Chrome and Firefox By Robert Zak – Posted on Nov 3, 2018 Nov 3, 2018 in Browsers One of the annoying things correlating with an ever-faster Internet is an increase in the number of websites that deem it okay to autoplay videos (often with sound!) as soon as you land on their homepage.
Follow the steps below to disable autoplay video in Chrome by default. This effort stops autoplay videos in Chrome forever, right? Chrome uses a (MEI) as a signal to determine desktop user media interaction on a site. A site’s MEI score may allow it to bypass Chrome’s autoplay policy as it learns a user’s preferences. Further, according to by John Pallett, Chrome’s Product Manager and Media Muter, “If you don’t have browsing history, Chrome allows autoplay for over 1,000 sites where we see that the highest percentage of visitors play media with sound.” This built-in “whitelist” of 1000+ sites may also bypass the autoplay policy. If all else fails, use an extension As stated earlier, the offers a few extensions that disable autoplay video in Chrome.
Blocks the tag used by native HTML5 videos. The extension automatically whitelists both YouTube and Vimeo. Works in a similar way but also hooks into the media’s JavaScript API. It also includes a whitelist feature and automatically buffers media when necessary.