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Video Blocker

Block videos from playing.

Users20KCurrent public install base
Rating3.3Store average score
Reviews178Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version1.2
ManifestV3
Size1.93MiB
Languages51Deutsch / English / Filipino +48
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Video Blocker stops annoying autoplay videos before they start.

* Prevents all web videos from automatically playing on pages.

* Allows you to whitelist specific domains like youtube.com where you want videos to play.

* Allows you to enable a single video by clicking on the video directly.

* If you find a video this extension is not currently blocking, I'd love to hear about it. Hit me up on twitter @benplowman.

New in version 1.2 (October 2022):

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Store average score3.3Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.2Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text151Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews178Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Tom2025年12月4日
5

I've been looking for something that will block Fox News videos for months now using Chrome. This is the first one that worked.

Version 1.2Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
nyet nyet2025年11月17日
5

Google is an obscene criminal entity with state backing. It is not a monopoly, but an actual department of state. It is a cancer that gives ADHD and spoon feeds amphetamines to the youth. Youtube actively causes this extension to be required. And then Google actively promotes it. Its literally advertising Spyware. Google is a criminal entity and would be severely punished if it weren't a core part of the US Government.

Version 1.2Language en
3 helpful · 9 not helpful
Lajos György Mészáros2025年10月27日
3

I came over to this after the autoplay blocker plugin got nuked by chrome's recent policy change. I only tested this on a few sites and it mostly seems to be working, but sometimes it doesn't. For example on shopify's homepage the large video that plays in the background gets blocked for a split second then it starts playing again. The plugin needs to be way more agressive, like spam .pause() for all video tags every second after page load if needed to make sure videos get blocked. I agree with the others on the text that is being overlaid on the video being way too agressive, it is almost as distracting as having the moving content of a video on a page. Plus on portrait mode videos the text goes out of bounds. I would rather not see anything, just the poster image, or the 1st frame of the video or a dark grey box then to be notified that there's a video that got blocked. I also appreciate hungarian translation, but I would rather go with english text/ui, but I didn't see any options to change that.

Version 1.2Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Mathematical Minutiae2025年10月17日
3

Finally, a video blocker for Chrome that actually seems to work in AD 2025 on all Web sites (I hope). The only serious flaw is that every blocked video window is completely obscured by a notice that states "Blocked with Video Blocker". I would much rather see the video "thumbnail" unobscured, so that I can decide if I want to play it without actually playing it. PS Damn Google for its hateful policy that makes this extension necessary!

Version 1.2Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Dan K2025年9月30日
3

Seems to work, but I find the image that it superimposes over videos to be annoying. Would be better IMHO if it just put a little icon in a lower corner perhaps?

Version 1.2Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
J J2025年9月18日
4

I've used this extension for years and it still works very well, although sometimes an auto video will load before this is activated so I refresh the page and it blocks it. Overall, it's the best of the stop auto vid extensions out there.

Version 1.2Language en
banana2025年9月15日
1

沒用,網頁上的影片還是會自動播放

Version 1.2Language zh
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Xavier Vanier2025年9月10日
1

Only works on initial page load. will not block auto load of following video

Version 1.2Language en
Boo Who2025年8月23日
2

It not only stops and blocks it from autoplay it makes it almost impossible to see what the video even is. You get a semi transparent message saying that it is blocked and if you wanted to watch it you had to click on it to watch it. So my problem is that if I can't clearly see the video how am I going to know if I want to click to watch it???

Version 1.2Language en
8 helpful · 0 not helpful
Fritz Lennaárd2025年8月22日
5

It works well, but I can't figure out how to whitelist specific sites. Edit: I found it. You have to click on the small puzzle piece icon in the top-right corner (next to the URL bar) and then click on the extension's name, not the three dots for the settings.

Version 1.2Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful