Disable Autoplay for YouTube™

Name: Disable Autoplay for YouTube™
Rating: 3.035928143712575 (167 reviews)
Author: Lynn

Disable YouTube HTML5 player from auto-playing.

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Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to stop YouTube videos from auto-playing as soon as you open them. With a convenient toolbar button serving as an ON/OFF switch, you immediately control if videos play or remain paused. When active, the extension stops videos from auto-playing and prevents buffering, with options to pause videos instead, allowing buffering without playback. It supports all YouTube videos, including embedded content, and offers customizable settings like controlling playback when tabs lose or gain focus.

Note that the extension disables the YouTube miniplayer functionality when active, and does not affect YouTube Shorts playback by default (toggleable in settings). This easy-to-use tool enhances your YouTube browsing experience by giving you full control over video autoplay, reducing distractions and saving bandwidth.

Extension Productivity Video Utilities

By:

Lynn

Users:

10,000

Rating:

3.04

(167) 0.01

Version:

0.1.3 Last updated: 2024-12-05

Creation date:

2017-07-31

Risk:

Permissions:

storage

Size:

33.76KB

Email:

qa*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

21 hours ago

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# 6,834 ▼ 72

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#3943 in Tools ▼ 14

#12 in disable keyword 32 ▲ 1

#17 in stop keyword 13 ▼ 1

#56 in continue keyword 5 ▲ 2

#147 in pause keyword 15 ▼ 1

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Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ (v0.1.3)

758 2.82

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User reviews

The Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ extension is praised for effectively stopping unwanted autoplay, improving playback stability, and working on multiple browsers. However, many users report intermittent failures after YouTube updates, needing to refresh or double-click to play, lack of thumbnail display, occasional conflicts with ad blockers, and some initial setup confusion. Overall, it meets the main need for disabling autoplay but has reliability and usability issues noted by several users.

Pros

Effectively disables autoplay on YouTube, fulfilling its main purpose for many users.
Helps prevent unwanted video playback and stuttering by controlling when videos start playing.
Easy to use with options that enable the extension to work reliably when properly configured.
Works well on multiple browsers including Chrome and Brave.
Positive impact on buffering issues and playback stability, as noted by some users.

Cons

Extension intermittently stops working or becomes outdated after YouTube updates, causing frustration.
Some users experience needing to refresh the page or click multiple times to play videos after using the extension.
Does not show video thumbnails or covers, displaying black screens instead, which some users find undesirable.
May conflict with other extensions like ad blockers, affecting YouTube ad blocking functionality.
Initial setup requires enabling options and activating the extension icon, which is not intuitive for all users.

Recent reviews

does not work

Ja*****, 2025-06-15

Es funktioniert jedoch man sieht die Länge des Videos nicht. Nach drücken von Play kommt Google Meldung die man abwarten muss (Irgendwas: probleme bei Wiedergabe? oder sowas). Wenn man unter Ankündigung "Benachrichtigen" drücken will dann geht es nicht da so ein weisser Streifen es verhindert.

Ja*****, 2025-06-15

works

Er*****, 2025-05-22

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Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

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