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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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Nick Albeat2018年3月19日
5

it's working perfect. keep it up!!

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Sourav Soni2018年2月11日
1

not working

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Shah2018年1月2日
1

не работает

Language ru
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Renato SDS2017年11月27日
3

Does not work on Chrome Version 62.0.3202.94 (64-bit)

Language en
Trent Isaacson2017年11月27日
2

If this disabled videos from automatically playing on Youtube, it would be named appropriately. However, it does not do this. I suggest the developer change the name to "Does Not Disable Autoplay For Youtube".

Language en
10 helpful · 2 not helpful
malrepast2017年11月24日
1

Malicious extension, blocked from google.

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
W PM2017年11月21日
1

Don't work

Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Lieutenant BaconWaffles2017年8月18日
5

I can open multiple youtube tabs & not have to go in & stop each one. Edit: Only Stop Autoplay app still working in 2020. Recommend uninstalling & reinstalling if not working.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
dsjkf dfgfdg2017年8月17日
3

Edit: New update actually broke it this time, reinstalling did not fix it. A youtube update broke every autoplay stopping extension I had. This is the only one that works now.

Language en
2 helpful · 3 not helpful
Daniel MacDonald2017年8月12日
5

I hated opening the browser, going to a Youtube tab and the video start automatically. This is the first extension I've tried to fix the issue and it works. So it's staying. Lol

Language en
7 helpful · 1 not helpful