Does Google Chrome allow autoplay?

27 Comments

1. Dirgster

   Vielen Dank, Herr Brinkmann, für diesen hilfreichen Tipp! I always enjoy reading your informative newsletters.

2. Carole

   I just did this on my laptop. When I launched Yahoo News, there is a video autoplaying! Grrr!

   • ikomrad

     Same here. Chrome 69 on Mac OS. youtube videos play with chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy set to document I also have HTML5 autoplay blocker installed and it also does not prevent autoplay. Grrrr

3. Laura Ayala

   Thank you for the quick and easy actual steps! Data use increases cost me sooo much money. The autoplaying restricts parental supervision/control, too.

4. Frank

   I already have these settings on my laptop for Chrome, yet DailyMail.co.uk still plays popup videos everytime I scroll past a video I think theyve found some new trick to make them popup its annoying as hell !

5. C4Lin

   Ive tried these because its driving me mental both on PC and mobile!
   Unfortunately, it doesnt seem to have made a difference. I dont know why but its very annoying!
   But thank you for your explanations anywayat least it gave me something to try!

   • Ben

     same here. I tried these but nothing has changed. All the videos are playing in the background!

6. Rufus Anton

   This doesnt really solve the problem. Even if videos dont start playing they still get streamed into the buffer wasting bandwidth all the same.

7. Mitch

   Doesnt work.

8. Debra Dean

   does not work thanks Google Chrome you are becoming Internet Explorer [sad face]

9. James M Pash

   I have solution. First of all, Im very sad Google chrome doesnt work. Solution, change default browser to Firefox. Videos stop. Set FireFox default page to Google. You now have Google in FireFox

10. mark

    auto play is HIGHLY annoying. default to be user clicks to start video.

11. jonnie

    chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy hack stopped a CNN video from auto playing on a cnn.com site. But the cnn site is the only site I tested so far. Interesting that Google tries so hard to autoplay videos on users.

12. Joe

    I prefer to control my content and so I hate autoplay vids so thanks for this.

13. Brenda L Tippin

    Youre right, unfortunately this no longer works. Extremely annoying because this happens all the time on news sites especially when you are tracking events like hurricanes, wildfires etc. They assume you want to see the videos and that is the easiest way [for them] to show you. But, what you really want is quick current facts. You might be at work, or may have limited data or bandwidth either on your mobile or desktop. Often sites you click on do not appear to have a video until you click and it starts playing. Some of them are small and placed far down the page so the video is either blaring until you find it, or if you have sound muted, it is still eating up your data or bandwidth and you may not even notice it right away. EXTREMELY irritating. Wish there was a way to get this through Googles thick skull.

14. chris

    Guess Ill only use Chrome for chromecast. Will use other browsers that pay attention to user wishes and privacy. Google..what happened to being the best?
    ps Already changed default email from gmail

15. jerome

    So google is now unable to control their own functionality?? Intentional incompetence again, yielding to the advertisers?

    Ill look into just going back to firefox [uggh].. and [sigh] abandoning gmail. Google seems to be evolving into a champion of user abuse.

    • ikomrad

      +1 this!

16. longjohn119

    The owners of site that use autoplay videos should be strung up and beaten with a garden hose stuffed with sand

    Im tired of going over my monthly bandwidth allowance be stupid autoplay videos have eaten up 25% or more of my monthly bandwidth FOR NOTHING OF VALUE

    • James

      Might want to disable JavaScript for such sites. Personally, such sites do not deserve to have JavaScript enabled if they do not respect the bandwidth of their visitors, even though their sites functionality would be limited.

17. gsr

    Video auto play is annoying. Just plain awful.

18. arash a

    my goodness, thank you for this.
    autoplay is beyond annoying.

19. Phil

    I am using Chromium in Linux. Yahoo Mail has this autoplay video ads each time I check my email, consuming much of my bandwidth without my permission. As much as possible, I would like to avoid plugins or extensions which might have security issues.

    1. I tried this chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy on Yahoo solution, yet the videos still play automatically.

    2. So I also tried disabling JavaScript for the entire yahoo.com domain, but still the same.

    3. So I also switched to Yahoo Mail Basic in Yahoo Mail Settings. Now, the ads appear to be plain image ads.

    Hopefully, those video ads wont come back.

20. Tim H

    Thank you- autoplay is incredibly annoying and the default should NOT be enabled

21. MARY

    My internet account only allows me 20 Gig a month of Downloading. Auto videos use bandwidth when I do not want to hear or watch these videos. Despite Disabling Auto Play a few videos still manage to auto play but it is much better than it used to be.

22. BRIAN N MCGUIGAN

    This is absolutely the WORST feature of Chrome. Im thinking of trying other Browsers because of it.

23. Madelyn

    Awesome, that worked! Thank you so much!