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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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M Walker2024年9月23日
4

Worked but need to go to the options and click the first four check boxes as mentioned below.

Version 0.1.2Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
SR Whittles2024年9月20日
5

I thought it didn't work, until I found the settings (extension options) page. After ticking the first four check boxes, it worked perfectly.

Version 0.1.2Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Sejoon Lee2024年9月11日
1

"시크릿 모드에서 허용" 옵션을 켜도, 시크릿 모드에서 작동하지 않습니다. 그리고 유튜브 동영상 시작 전 검은 화면 딜레이가 몇 초 생깁니다.

Version 0.1.2Language ko
Wasseem Atalla2024年8月28日
1

useless. It doesn't help. waste of time

Version 0.1.2Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Stuart Tight2024年8月28日
1

useless... videos still autoplay when opening them, regardless of settings

Version 0.1.2Language en
4 helpful · 1 not helpful
Lawrence Ip2024年8月9日
5

Works a treat!

Version 0.1.2Language en
1 helpful · 4 not helpful
Anton Nagorniy2024年8月7日
5

Awesome job! Thank you

Version 0.1.2Language en
1 helpful · 2 not helpful
Karen Wilfong2024年7月29日
5

THANK YOU! I have a MacBook and while I can use the slider within YouTube to turn off autoplay, this only stops the NEXT video from playing. This extension prevents open tabs with videos from playing when I restart chrome, refresh the tab, etc ... It won't play unless I click on it (just a black screen). Checking the 2nd option removes the black screen and the video will still be paused (but buffering). Also, read the instructions on this extension about preventing other unwanted behavior's that are not turned on by default. I checked "pause the video when youtube is unfocused". What this does is when you are watching a video and then switch to another tab, the video pauses. The cool thing is when you go back to the video tab it is still paused but no black screen this time (regardless if you choose the 2nd option) you can see the paused video. You just click the video and it resumes. You can find the options by right clicking the extension badge in your browser. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

Version 0.1.2Language en
1 helpful · 2 not helpful
RC2024年7月23日
5

perfect!!

Version 0.1.2Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
xxhhlk2024年7月22日
5

There are options for this extension, uncheck the second one and you won't get a black screen!

Version 0.1.2Language en
2 helpful · 2 not helpful