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Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by bitpush » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:35 AM UTC

erikig wrote: post #7

polotics wrote: post #2

could you provide an example of a website that shows this behaviour?

The YouTube video page comes to mind e.g https://youtu.be/8aIyHl5qP9I It would me great if the user had the option to press play to start the video.

wut? You go to a YouTube video url to watch the video.

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by kvemkon » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:37 AM UTC

gavinsyancey wrote: post #16

Firefox blocks auto playing videos with sound by default. And you can also configure it to block all autoplay or or allow it globally, or per-website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

Using this since I can remember. But noticed another issue and still searching how to disable the video cache at all until I start to play the video and to limit it to 2-5 seconds (or 1 MB) during playing, though no chance so far.

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by nomendos » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:38 AM UTC

tech234a wrote: post #19

AutoplayerStopper [1] is still available if you set the policy to enable manifest V2 extensions [2] which should still work for a few more months. [1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoplaystopper/ejd... [2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

I saw these and I and most others are not desperate to buy month or less. Chrome fully deserves to be uninstalled it is enemy-ware!

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by curtisblaine » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:39 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #20

gavinsyancey wrote: post #16

Firefox blocks auto playing videos with sound by default. And you can also configure it to block all autoplay or or allow it globally, or per-website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

Doesn’t YouTube technically autoplay? You click a link, change page and url and a video starts playing

I can't try it at the moment, but I'm not sure the page is actually reloaded. I suspect YouTube is an SPA and, when you click, the url change event is captured by a router and the content of the page is merely replaced.

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by EduardoBautista » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:39 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #20

gavinsyancey wrote: post #16

Firefox blocks auto playing videos with sound by default. And you can also configure it to block all autoplay or or allow it globally, or per-website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

Doesn’t YouTube technically autoplay? You click a link, change page and url and a video starts playing

Video autoplay is usually allowed on a whitelist of URLs determined by the browser vendor, if I recall correctly.

YouTube is always on those whitelists.

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by nomendos » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:39 AM UTC

seneca wrote: post #9

This is totally unsurprising. I'm sure Google realized that autoplaying gives them more ad revenue somehow. It was a massive mistake to allow an ad company control over your browser.

Unsurprising shall be mass-uninstall ;-) Fully deserved!

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by nomendos » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:41 AM UTC

28304283409234 wrote: post #5

Chrome is not there to serve you. It is to serve Google.

So we should be using other browsers (Brave, LibreWolf, Vivaldi, Firefox, even Opera might be better overall)

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:44 AM UTC

Maybe they don’t want you to do that? YouTube has "autoplay next video" by default and you can’t disable that either. This is the kind of controlling behavior that I expect from Google.

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by kvemkon » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:46 AM UTC

kvemkon wrote: post #22

gavinsyancey wrote: post #16

Firefox blocks auto playing videos with sound by default. And you can also configure it to block all autoplay or or allow it globally, or per-website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

Using this since I can remember. But noticed another issue and still searching how to disable the video cache at all until I start to play the video and to limit it to 2-5 seconds (or 1 MB) during playing, though no chance so far.

And just another issue since few months: youtube page auto-reloads/replaces itself since few seconds after opening (even if the tab is not active). The title gets replaced from the original language into English auto-translation (EN is default for browser), but I'd like to see video titles in the original language.

Re: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

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Post by Sabinus » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 7:47 AM UTC

tech234a wrote: post #19

AutoplayerStopper [1] is still available if you set the policy to enable manifest V2 extensions [2] which should still work for a few more months. [1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoplaystopper/ejd... [2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...

Oh, this was a feature removed by manifest v3? How coincidental and convenient for Google.