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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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Krittin Pukavanutch2025年10月16日
5

Finally can replace "autoplay stopper" In the recent update now it can stop youtube tabs from playing when startup Chrome in circumstances of having many opened windows.

Version 0.1.4Language en
Vlad Vulcan2025年10月7日
5

Работает, что еще надо?

Version 0.1.4Language ru
Paddy Landau2025年10月7日
5

At last, something that works! If the dev can make a version that works on all videos, not just YouTube ones, that would be awesome!

Version 0.1.4Language en
Lucian T. Skeptic2025年9月16日
1

Didn't work for me.

Version 0.1.4Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Jason Potter2025年9月11日
1

It blocks autoplay, but you can't get rid of the block if you want to start the video - clicking on the red block does nothing. Ridiculous.

Version 0.1.3Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Hamdingers Cat2025年9月8日
5

Works great, does what it says. Eventually youtube will break it, because they just can't help themselves from shredding all the useful improvements people make, but for now, I greatly appreciate addons like this that do their job and do it well.

Version 0.1.3Language en
Yohines2025年9月8日
5

works perfectly the its less then a seacod where it palys

Version 0.1.3Language en
Van Snow2025年9月7日
5

Oh thank God, it works.

Version 0.1.3Language en
Jordan2025年9月3日
5

Can't believe this still works. It hasn't been updated since 2024 and it still rolls good. awesome

Version 0.1.3Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Simon Chung2025年8月24日
5

Stops videos from playing automatically after it has loaded

Version 0.1.3Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful