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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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Noetic Concordance2021年8月6日
1

Surprise surprise it does not actually do anything except ad a little icon on you browsers tool bar. It is kind of like a piece of jewelry for you browser.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Stephen Pattinson2021年8月6日
1

Doesn't appear to work. Am I doing something wrong or is it just out of date?

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PhilTact2021年7月6日
1

Does nothing.

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ٌّ ٌّ2021年5月26日
2

This has completely stopped working in the last few days

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Bubbles2021年5月11日
5

Works!!!

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0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Darwin Freitag2021年5月5日
5

only works after using shift f5

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0 helpful · 1 not helpful
EndyDiD2021年4月4日
5

If you are Looking for a Good Youtube only Autoplay Blocker/Disabler - This is it!. This is the best one for that And I Highly recommend that anyone who thinks they need this tries this😉

Language en
Julian Jones2021年3月20日
5

Works very well for me. Very useful extension if you don't want youtube to autoplay, as Google seem to have progressively removed the ability to do this from their own settings. Easy to switch on and off with the toolbar button and simple option selection by right-clicking the toolbar button. One minor glitch is that youtube channel pages sometimes fail to display when the extension is enabled, but a simple workround if this happens is shift-refresh.

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Anas EL BOUDALI2021年3月17日
1

this extention has NO FUNCTIONALITY

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jay Cee2021年1月14日
1

Doesn't work at all. Click on a youtube video, then it plays automatically.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful