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Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?
What is going on with Chrome,
It seems Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play (no settings option and all extensions that used to work now are delisted from Chrome store).
I tried many from the Chrome store and few that are not yet removed, simply do not work anymore. Has Google Chrome team fallen so low that they insist on autoplaying and giving no option to stop it!?!?
- tim333 2y agohttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Disable%20HTML5%20Autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Disable%20HTML5%20A... still seems to work for me?
- polotics 2y agocould you provide an example of a website that shows this behaviour?
- a012 2y agoIt’s on the frontpage now as well: https://design.google/library/youtube-new-red-color https://design.google/library/youtube-new-red-color
- erikig 2y agoThe YouTube video page comes to mind e.g https://youtu.be/8aIyHl5qP9I https://youtu.be/8aIyHl5qP9I It would me great if the user had the option to press play to start the video.
- bitpush 2y agowut? You go to a YouTube video url to watch the video.
- red_trumpet 2y agoIt would be nice to read the title and look at the thumbnail to get an impression before blasting "never gonna give you up" through my speakers.
- technothrasher 2y agoYep, and I'm ready to watch said video as soon as I press the play button. I haven't really used chrome much in years, as Firefox is my main browser. But even with Firefox, stopping autoplay seems to be an ongoing cat and mouse game.
- k1t 2y agoIf I say "no auto-playing videos" then I mean No Auto-Playing Videos. I don't expect you or my browser to start second guessing that with "oh, but probably it's OK on this site...?" I do recall a Firefox discussion about how they can't 100% block videoes because there will always be another way - eg do animated gifs count, or javascript that shows a rapid sequence of images - but just because it can't be perfect doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.
- rpigab 2y agoI only read the comments usually, if the comments are good, maybe I'll watch the video.
- tim333 2y agohttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Disable%20HTML5%20Autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Disable%20HTML5%20A... worked
- timothya 2y agoSee: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay tl;dr: The browser attempts to learn your preference for each site automatically based on how you interact with videos. You can see what it's calculated by visiting chrome://media-engagement
- loeg 2y agoYeah, they've always claimed this but I've literally never wanted autoplay and it's never ever learned that preference, so...
- Groxx 2y ago> Media Engagement Index Solid evidence that Google knows just what I want from a browser: a taste of vomit.
- Terr_ 2y ago> attempts to learn Oh god, that reminds me of another piece of bullshit Chrome magic. They made a system when the browser shares signatures of forms/fields with a central server, which sends back "crowdsourced" autocompletion rules, and they've made it almost impossible for developers to stop it from doing that [0] even when it's flat-out wrong and users are complaining about inappropriate autocomplete suggestions being shown/recorded. Over the last ~8 years developers have submitted hundreds of examples [1] of why it's a stupid feature that at least needs a way to opt-out, but Chromium devs have kept it mandatory, and I suspect it's because Google/Alphabet is somehow exploiting all that leaked metadata about what forms people visit. [0] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420 [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842
- Terr_ 2y agoP.S.: Messing with the issue-tracker (and bringing up unpleasant memories of desperately trying to find a workaround in their source-code) I find that the two linked issue about this anti-feature rank are both in the top-15 most-voted open issues. (Rank 14 and 9, respectively.) https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open%20votecount%3E400&s=vote_count:desc&s=seven_day_view_count:desc&p=1 https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open%20votecount... (Vote count column not displayed by default.)
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoI find this behavior quite annoying. I would like to be able to block auto play by default across the entire Internet. I have to imagine this is simply a way to allow Google’s ad networks to play annoying ads.
- 28304283409234 2y agoChrome is not there to serve you. It is to serve Google.
- nomendos 2y agoSo we should be using other browsers (Brave, LibreWolf, Vivaldi, Firefox, even Opera might be better overall)
- theshrike79 2y agoOf those, afaik Firefox is the only one not based on Chromium. "But but Brave..." Yea they have their own crap on top, but it's still the Chromium rendering engine.
- Sabinus 2y agoI have said it before and I will say it again, it makes zero sense to browse the internet with a piece of software written by an advertising company.
- caspper69 2y agoTo think, they have advocated over the years to keep adding to the specs to the point that they’ve become so complex that even Microsoft, the king of this rube goldberg type shit, threw in the towel and said eff it, we’ll just use Chromium. We should write an app browser with sensible layout and a qemu virtual machine backend. Pay the 5% hit to run actually performant native code that’s 100% sandboxed. Couldn’t be any worse, that’s for sure.
- avgd 2y ago> so complex that even Microsoft, the king of this rube goldberg type shit, threw in the towel and said eff it, we’ll just use Chromium I believe the core reason to be different: Microsoft lost the will to compete. You can say any number of negative things about Steve Ballmer, but at least the guy tried. He tried. He may fail, but he would try, again and again, no matter how many time he would experience losses. When he got replaced by a bean counter Microsoft stopped trying. It isn't just browser engines they've abandoned. There is no Windows Phone anymore. Windows 11 is worse on tablets than 10. Closing down their Apple Music competitor (Groove) etc. Recently, they've been arguing for less exclusivity on gaming consoles and releasing their games on Playstation. If we anthropomorphized corporations, modern Microsoft is the thin skinned loser who will fold at the slightest provocation.
- seneca 2y agoThis 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.
- nomendos 2y agoUnsurprising shall be mass-uninstall ;-) Fully deserved!
- doctor_radium 2y agoHmm, but there are ways of streaming video that don't have traditional Play/Pause/etc. buttons. If there's no way to turn it off, how can Chrome "learn my preferences"? Maybe it can sense me swearing? Not a Chrome user and definitely not starting now. Autoplay video is one of my great annoyances on the modern web.
- Justta 2y agoUse uBlock to remove that element. Dont know if it will save data.
- nomendos 2y agouBlock is removed from Chrome store
- fambalamboni 2y ago[dead]
- gavinsyancey 2y agoFirefox 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 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay
- wodenokoto 2y agoDoesn’t YouTube technically autoplay? You click a link, change page and url and a video starts playing
- EduardoBautista 2y agoVideo autoplay is usually allowed on a whitelist of URLs determined by the browser vendor, if I recall correctly. YouTube is always on those whitelists.
- curtisblaine 2y agoI 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.
- kvemkon 2y agoUsing 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.
- kvemkon 2y agoAnd 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.
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- nomendos 2y agoOK Chrome shall be gone/uninstalled/not-used from all my computers and shall recommend it be removed from all my friends computers with the explanation of their behavior and loss of trust and respect for us users!
- tech234a 2y agoAutoplayerStopper [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/ejddcgojdblidajhngkogefpkknnebdh https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoplaystopper/ejd... [2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manifest_v2_phaseout_begins/l6cuqzg/ https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manif...
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoMaybe 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.
- wqaatwt 2y ago> you can’t disable that either You can though?
- oulipo 2y agoI made a small ViolentMonkey script to stop autoplay on Youtube, which is really annoying // ==UserScript== // @name YouTube video page AutoPause // @namespace https://greasyfork.org/en/users/13981-chk1 // @description Automatically pause YouTube videos on Youtube video pages // @icon https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/536ed9a8/img/favicon_96x96.png // @include https://*.youtube.com/watch* // @include http://*.youtube.com/watch* // @version 0.3 // @grant none // @run-at document-end // ==/UserScript== (function () { 'use strict'; /** * Get element with selector and call callback with it. * @param {string} selector Selector for the element. * @param {function} callback Callback function to call with the element. */ function forElement(selector, callback) { // Init forElement.timeoutCount. if (forElement.timeoutCount === undefined) { forElement.timeoutCount = {} } // Init forElement.timeoutCount[selector]. if (forElement.timeoutCount[selector] === undefined) { forElement.timeoutCount[selector] = 0 } // Get element. const element = document.querySelector(selector) // If element not found. if (element === null) { // try again after timeout. setTimeout( function () { forElement(selector, callback) }, ( // Base timeout. 100 * // Increase timeout after each try. (forElement.timeoutCount[selector]++) ) ) } // If element found else { // reset timeout count forElement.timeoutCount[selector] = 0 // and call callback with element. callback(element) } } // Init previous video ID. let videoIdCurr = null; // Init paused video ID. let videoIdPaused = null // Init video element. let videoElement = null /** * On playing event. */ function onPlaying() { // If video ID has not changed from last paused one if (videoIdPaused === videoIdCurr) { // just return. return } // Pause video videoElement.pause() // Update paused video ID. videoIdPaused = videoIdCurr } /** * Run on url change. */ function onUrlChange() { // Get video id from url. const videoIdNew = (new URLSearchParams(window.location.search)).get("v"); // If if ( // did not get video id videoIdNew === null || // or video id did not change videoIdNew === videoIdCurr ) { // just return. return } // Update previous video id. videoIdCurr = videoIdNew; // Run for forElement( // video element that has src attribute "video[src]", function (video) { // If video element is set if (videoElement) { // remove event listener from video element. videoElement.removeEventListener("playing", onPlaying); } // Update video element. videoElement = video // Add event listener to video element videoElement.addEventListener("playing", onPlaying); } ) } // Add event listener for window.addEventListener( // Youtube page data updated event. 'yt-page-data-updated', function () { onUrlChange(); } ); // Run on url change once on first load. onUrlChange(); })();
- liendolucas 2y agoThere's no reason to use Chrome today. Maybe there was a reason to use it many many years ago. With plenty of options today the sane choice is to select another browser. I run Firefox even on my phone. If for some reason I need a Chrome based browser, on my phone I switch to Brave, on the desktop to Chromium. But I rarely open any of those at all as Firefox has been doing extremely well.
- tim333 2y agoGoogle lens built in is cool.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoChrome is not for you. Chrome is for monetizing your attention.
- bdhcuidbebe 2y agoIf its youtube, change your settings, Its autoplay on default. If its your website, just set it up like you want in the video tag. Not sure why this post wasnt removed tho. This is just general issues you could have googled for a solution or askes a site dedicated to it such as stack overflow.
- follower 2y agoQuoting part of k1t's comment[0] for visibility: "I do recall a Firefox discussion about how they can't 100% block videos because there will always be another way - eg do animated gifs count, or javascript that shows a rapid sequence of images [...]" I also recall this being a justification given for auto-playing muted or audio-less video (i.e. because blocking "efficient" muted video playback will just lead to malicious actors using "less efficient" means of "image sequence" playback thus increasing the negative impact further). On a related note, the other day I also discovered (while debugging why an audio demo didn't work the same way it did six years ago :D ) that there's now also a concept called "Sticky Activation" which can also impact "Autoplay of Media and Web Audio APIs (in particular for AudioContexts)"[1]. ---- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43033814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43033814 [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/User_activation#sticky_activation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/User_a...