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Google Chrome: How to Disable Autoplay for VideosFed up of noisy videos? We show you how to use Google Chrome to disable autoplay videos, even after Google removed the setting. Show By Ryan Maskell- Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Almost everyone who uses the internet is familiar with the frustration of auto-playing videos. When you visit a site, they start, using your bandwidth and potentially interrupting your music or other media. Google Chrome used to have a disable autoplay videos setting to address this, but Alphabet Inc. is primarily an advertiser and owns the worlds largest video site, so it soon went back on that decision. As well as removing the stop autoplay videos setting, Google removed the developer flags, meaning many older guides no longer work. Though Chrome still disables some autoplay videos by default, its far from all of them and is dependent on its autoplay policies. First, the browser enables autoplay without sound at all times, even if youre on a metered connection. It also allows autoplay with sound if the user has interacted with the domain, with a simple click on the webpage being enough. Any site that has been added to the home screen or installed as a PWA also has permission. On desktop, the videos Media Engagement Index (MEI) also comes into play. Google Chrome measures how often a user interacts with media on any given site. It counts a significant media playback as a time when a user watches an audio and video stream for more than 7 seconds in their active tab at a resolution of more than 200×140 pixels. If the score is high enough, it enables autoplay. You can check your own MEI navigating to the address chrome://media-engagement. As you can imagine, all of this leads to plenty of instances where Chrome still autoplays when you dont want it to. Thankfully, theres still a way to stop HTML5 autoplay on a lot of videos, and you can easily mute them automatically for the ones that slip through. Heres how to turn off autoplay in the browser: Contents
How to Mute All Autoplay Videos in Google ChromeAs mentioned, Chrome no longer has block video ads or stop autoplay settings, but you can mute every webpage, then enable audio for the ones you use regularly. For many users, this is enough.
How to disable Autoplay for Videos with a Special ShortcutIf you have reason to be more aggressive, such as a data cap, there are no Chrome flags autoplay settings anymore, but you can halt them via a desktop shortcut.
How to Disable Autoplay with Chrome ExtensionsThe final option is to use a Chrome autoplay extension, but its last for a reason. Extensions can be hit and miss, with some working well, some only working on a handful of sites, and some not at all. As a result, its best to combine them with the shortcut-solution above.
Visit the Chrome Web Store and search for autoplay, or follow the link to one of our recommended plugins:
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