YouTube turn off autoplay
Workflow & Planning
FreemiumConfidence 64
Wondering how to turn off autoplay on YouTube? Install our autoplaystopper Chrome extension.
Users
1K
Rating
3.6
Reviews
36
7D Growth
0|0%
Stable signalUnknownMedium-risk permissions
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
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3.16
Latest
3.17
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2026年7月15日2026年7月21日
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Version0.1.4
ManifestV3
Size37.86KiB
Languages1English
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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
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Total ratings / reviews221Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
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Had been broken recently by a YouTube update, but seems to work again for me, great extension.
doesn't work
It worked great, but in the last couple of weeks something has happened that prevents me from playing a youtube video if it's been more than 5 seconds since i opened the tab. The solution to this is to update the page when i want to watch, and then click play within 2-5 seconds, really annoying.
There used to be button somewhere, in chrome itself or youtube setting where you could turn on and off autoplay like this. But it's gone now. Couldn't find it. But I did find this extension thankfully! In the past I didn't like it when the next video wouldn't automatically play when I opened it in a new tab so I turned it off. But now I've noticed that youtube starts playing the video before the whole site has loaded, which causes it to stutter constantly in the beginning. And that was getting on my nerves. So this extension is working like a charm, doing exactly what I needed! Thank you.
worked as I wanted it
Работает. А что ещё нужно?
Just the right extension I was searching for. Wanted to save a YouTube video in tab for next day, but don't want it to play until I wanted to.
Third Update: In less than 24 hours after reinstalling this extension, it fails to stop videos from automatically playing. I don't know why. I reload the pages after enabling this extension, but it will not perform as expected today. Yes, it did perfrom yesterday, but today I'm uninstalling it again for the aforementioned reasons. Second Update: I don't remember exactly when, but earlier this year I uninstalled this extension because it didn't work more often than it did work. Today, Wednesday, November 12, 2025 I reinstalled it because it currently works to stop YouTube videos, YouTube shorts, and Youtube videos on YouTube channels' Home tabs. Nice work, Lynn, thank you! I hope I have a better experience with your extension this time. Update: Today is Monday, February 10, 2025. This extension works great when it wants to work. So, I'm adjusting my rating because I find that I must disable it, then re-enable it to keep it working. Today is Thursday, February 6, 2025. This extension works great! Thank you, Lynn!
Doesn't work at all. Likely outdated?
Работает, то, что нужно! Если есть много открытых видео в окне браузера, то они не проигрываются! Благодарю, отличное расширение!