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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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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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Blackpaw2020年12月15日
3

Every third or fourth time a new page is opened, the page won't load. But when pages do load, the video doesn't play, so I guess it works when it's working.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Sergey Makarov2020年12月14日
5

У меня работает )))) Единственное ))) Версия 86.0.4240.75 (Официальная сборка), (64 бит)

Language ru
olymind12020年12月9日
5

Thankfully it's still working on my end without any issue.

Language en
Jem Crystal (Jem Fay Crystal)2020年10月28日
1

update: nvm it stopped working today ___ Works as intended but it stops the vid at the BEGINNING of the video. What I need is when sharing my lessons with students to stop the video at the point where I share the lesson. Youtube "Share" you can copy paste a url that puts you at point on vid. If I try use this extension and youtube share exact spot on vid this extension will not let me go spot on vid.

Language en
James Hamilton2020年10月24日
1

sucks. does not work

Language en
Виталий Дементьев2020年10月14日
5

То, что надо. При загрузке страницы, видео не ставится автоматически на паузу… Оно даже не пытается запуститься! На месте видео видна картинка оформления видео – та, которая обычно видна только на миниатюрах в списке видеороликов. А когда готов посмотреть видео – нажимаешь F для полного экрана и пробел. Установил, проверил – пока работает стабильно.

Language ru
Kardo Rostam2020年10月13日
5

It really works! :D the video does not auto play now when you open it. A blessing for people with many Youtube tabs open.

Language en
Valentin Pshenichnikov2020年10月9日
1

Не работает

Language ru
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Nojan2020年10月7日
5

BEST😍

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
James Henson2020年7月18日
4

Did exactly what I wanted. However, if you are on desktop and go back to a previous page it still allows the sound from the previous video to play for several seconds. A minor annoyance, but way much better then a YT vid playing as soon as I click the thumbnail.

Language en