Consumption of the media (audio/video) must be greater than 7 seconds.Chrome's current approach is a ratio of visits to significant media playback events per origin: The Media Engagement Index (MEI) measures an individual's propensity to consume media on a site. You can reverse this change by selecting the default from the drop-down list. This will restart the Chrome browser and activate the change. Lastly, you'll need to click on the blue Relaunch Now button found at the bottom of the page. Google Chrome Autoplay Policy to Block Autoplay Videos You'll need to set the drop box option box to Document user activation is required so that you have to approve any video to play on a website. The Autoplay policy should be set to Default when you load the page. Navigate to chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy in the Chrome address bar. To block autoplay videos in Chrome simply follow these steps: However, blocking autoplay videos for Chrome on Android does seem to still work for most sites.Ĭhrome features an almost identical hidden configuration option. You can always try out third-party extensions with varying degrees of success.
Google has updated the desktop version of Chrome several times since this article was written and the option for the desktop browser no longer seems to work. You can reverse that at any time by double-clicking again, or by right-clicking on the preference and selecting the reset option from the context menu. Update the setting to block HTML5 Autoplay videos Now search for the setting and set the value to false by double clicking it. In the next page, acknowledge the risk that dragons pose: Firefox, Here be dragons!
To access this feature navigate to about:config in your Firefox address bar. While it does prevent some videos from being played automatically, it won't prevent all HTML5 video contents as there are ways to bypass the restriction. Disable Autoplay HTML5 Videos in Firefoxįirefox ships with a hidden option called which you can set to false on the about:config page.
After a few years of nagging and user feedback, both Google and Mozilla have introduced a native method for disabling autoplay videos in HTML5. Third-party extensions such as AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock can go a small way to disabling auto-playing videos, but the latest HTML5 auto play videos cannot be disabled this way. Auto-playing videos are a huge annoyance as they distract attention, gobble up bandwidth and monthly data usage and they waste CPU cycles and battery.
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