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Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ icon

Disable Autoplay for YouTube™

Disable YouTube HTML5 player from auto-playing.

Users20KCurrent public install base
Rating3.2Store average score
Reviews221Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version0.1.4
ManifestV3
Size37.86KiB
Languages1English
Published
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Overview

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Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ is a lite extension that lets you easily stop/pause YouTube videos from auto-playing.

The toolbar button serves as an ON|OFF switch for this addon (the icon will change color accordingly). The red color shows an active state and the dark grey color shows a disabled state. To work with this addon, please add this addon to your browser and then start browsing YouTube. When the addon is active, videos are stopped automatically from playing when you open one. When videos are stopped, the buffering does not continue. You can change this behavior from the options page and let the videos "pause" instead of "stop". This way, the buffering continues but the video won't play. There is another option on the settings page to play or pause videos when a tab is focused or hidden (unfocused). These two options are not active by default. This addon works for all YouTube videos whether they are embedded or not. However, you can disable this feature from the settings page.

Note 1: when you switch to the miniplayer, the video stops again. So if you want to use the youtube miniplayer feature, please turn off this addon.

Note 2: by default, this addon does not work for youtube shorts and the small video player on the channel page. To enable this feature, please mark option #3 on the settings page.

To report bugs, please fill out the bug report form on the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/disable-autoplay.html).

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Store average score3.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.1Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text180Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews221Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 3.2. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Oleksii L2023年3月2日
1

not working at all

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Christian Miersch2023年2月2日
1

This does not work at all.

Language en
Mark Homburg2023年1月21日
1

Just installed the extension. I've tried everything including restarting the browser from scratch and the extension does not work at all. I'm using the latest Chrome browser and I'm attempting to play a single song. It just continues to play a new auto selected song. I DOESN'T WORK

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Nic G.2023年1月14日
2

Doesn't work for me. Every time I open a Youtube video in a new tab it automatically starts playing. But all I want is to open a Youtube video in paused mode or not even loading it in general. I played around with all the options but nothing changed anything. The focusing options work but that does not help me here. Here's a simple use case: Copy any youtube video link, open a new tab, paste that link into the address bar and press enter. Result: The video immediately starts playing what I do not want. It only should load the page and nothing more. I am using Brave v1.47.171.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Mittz2022年11月9日
2

Работает, но только на "главных" страницах каналов

Language ru
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Dmitry K2022年10月21日
3

Prevents from watching age restricted video, which are allowed by age.

Language en
Samson Bishop2022年9月12日
1

DOESN'T WORK!!!

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Alanium2022年7月9日
1

está de la verga

Language es
Damien Casoni2022年6月24日
1

Doesn't do what's supposed to do.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Alex S.2022年6月17日
2

Doesn't stop autoplay by link as it should.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful