YouTube™ No Buffer - Stop Autoplaying

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Prevents YouTube HTML5 and Flash players from auto-buffering (auto-playing) videos

Latest reviews

• (2025-06-19) Lieutenant BaconWaffles: Apparently the only autoplay blocker that stops ALL videos from automatically playing, & not just the ones on playlists. FYI to developer, this app does not even come up in the first page of results when looking up autoplay blockers, possibly because the title is "Stop Auto-Play" & not "Stop Autoplay." Didn't even find it until I looked up "youtube stop buffering."
• (2025-05-27) Simon: Works as intended aside from it breaking downloaded videos via yt premium. it stops the video but it can’t be resumed (smth smth its streaming a local file not a url? idk)
• (2024-11-20) Marvyn Orellana: It works
• (2024-07-02) Jakob Cosic: It didn't get it working and buffering stills on and the video keeps stopping.
• (2024-05-22) Josh Minar: Excellent. Doesn't prevent buffer like I hoped, but does stop videos from playing every time they try.
• (2024-04-01) Divyang Choudhary: good
• (2024-01-09) Jordan: Thanks for this, I've been looking for an extension for Autoplay to stop, but none worked until I found this. It works 100% for me
• (2023-12-29) overlord mcgeek: I can now have less headaches with this.
• (2023-11-22) Noah Walters: The extension used to block the video from playing automatically when opening a video. Now it is opening an web page something like this: webextension.org (creator of the extension) when the extension is updated. Wish the creator stopped that. Uninstalled it, installed an tab auto closer: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabs-auto-close/mbodbfopnnihkmkhcojmieknngpcalhf, and added it to my list.
• (2023-11-21) Ahmed Mohamedeen: Starting today 17 Nov. 2023 the video starts in a black screen. EDIT: Thanks for the update!
• (2023-11-21) Ahmed Mohamedeen: Starting today 17 Nov. 2023 the video starts in a black screen. EDIT: Thanks for the update!
• (2023-11-20) Mahdi Arezoumandi: Was good but the recent black-screen problem is a big issue. hope it gets fixed as soon as possible.
• (2023-11-18) Savol X: Stopped working just recently :(
• (2023-11-17) THGhost2013: It still works on Chrome, but recently every video now starts with a black screen instead of a paused thumbnail and play button. Clicking the black screen starts playing the video normally, so the thumbnail and play button are still there, you just can't see them anymore. Please fix!
• (2023-08-13) Owen Ganson: Doesn't work at all as of August 13 2023. Opera browser (chromium-based; manifest v2). I wish there were a way to upload logs, used extensions, and settings as part of a review. Are there any known incompatibilities? I'm not using any VPN or proxy, but I am using multiple ad blockers on YouTube (one for video ads and one for the rest).
• (2023-08-13) Owen Ganson: Doesn't work at all as of August 13 2023. Opera browser (chromium-based; manifest v2). I wish there were a way to upload logs, used extensions, and settings as part of a review. Are there any known incompatibilities? I'm not using any VPN or proxy, but I am using multiple ad blockers on YouTube (one for video ads and one for the rest).
• (2023-07-20) Ratling Gull: It works extremely inconsistently. Sometimes it forces me to press play twice, sometimes it doesn't even pause.
• (2023-07-20) Ratling Gull: It works extremely inconsistently. Sometimes it forces me to press play twice, sometimes it doesn't even pause.
• (2023-06-12) John Weiss: Problem: I unchecked "Stop even on playlists", but autoplay is still disabled on playlists. How to fix?
• (2023-06-12) John Weiss: Problem: I unchecked "Stop even on playlists", but autoplay is still disabled on playlists. How to fix?
• (2023-05-20) Alex MidNightMare: last YT update broke the extension, please fix.
• (2023-05-20) Alex MidNightMare: last YT update broke the extension, please fix.
• (2023-05-19) Lieutenant BaconWaffles: The last Youtube site update broke it. Please update.
• (2023-02-18) Will Smith: Doesn't work on https://www.youtube.com/@Katimorton. FYI, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-autoplay-for-youtube/figkapeodjhdgnpiamleongcmecfjccb does work on it. So use both to be safe.
• (2023-02-18) Will Smith: Doesn't work on https://www.youtube.com/@Katimorton. FYI, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-autoplay-for-youtube/figkapeodjhdgnpiamleongcmecfjccb does work on it. So use both to be safe.
• (2023-01-28) Путя Друщенко: отличное расширение. Останавливает автовоспроизведение роликов и отображает заставку в отличие от ему подобных, которые просто ставят на паузу на первой секунде и видео в буфере все равно подгружается
• (2023-01-16) Leshic: I always have many windows and tabs for YT, that open each time I start the browser. Downloaded this a few months ago when my previous used extension was kicked out of the store. This has worked for the most part. It does start the video for only the highlighted tab, for each window, when loading Chrome, but stops it immediately after. Unfortunately it's enough that YT registers it in history, although I never hear the video played. If I simply open a new video in a background tab, and eventually open that tab, the video DOES NOT play, and it never registers in history. The problem I shared above ONLY occurs when opening the browser for the 1st time for the day. The extension isn't perfect, but it's good enough and I can work around the minor issues. It's better than nothing and I think these extensions could be harder to find in the future as Google tried to change code to break them or kick them out of the store. I do not use playlists or watch shorts, so I can't give an opinion on that side.
• (2023-01-16) Leshic: I always have many windows and tabs for YT, that open each time I start the browser. Downloaded this a few months ago when my previous used extension was kicked out of the store. This has worked for the most part. It does start the video for only the highlighted tab, for each window, when loading Chrome, but stops it immediately after. Unfortunately it's enough that YT registers it in history, although I never hear the video played. If I simply open a new video in a background tab, and eventually open that tab, the video DOES NOT play, and it never registers in history. The problem I shared above ONLY occurs when opening the browser for the 1st time for the day. The extension isn't perfect, but it's good enough and I can work around the minor issues. It's better than nothing and I think these extensions could be harder to find in the future as Google tried to change code to break them or kick them out of the store. I do not use playlists or watch shorts, so I can't give an opinion on that side.
• (2023-01-01) 焦糖蘋果烤布丁: So good~
• (2023-01-01) 焦糖蘋果烤布丁: So good~
• (2022-12-04) Isaac: the only one that actually work
• (2022-12-04) Isaac: the only one that actually work
• (2022-11-09) Mittz: Ролики останавливает, но воспроизведение всё ещё есть на страницах каналов (/channel)
• (2022-10-08) Matthew Kowal: This implementation worked and does everything it says. I removed it because it is not trusted by Google's internal Enhanced Safe Browsing and I think the author should update the app to the proper security standard.
• (2022-10-08) Matthew Kowal: This implementation worked and does everything it says. I removed it because it is not trusted by Google's internal Enhanced Safe Browsing and I think the author should update the app to the proper security standard.
• (2022-06-01) Sasha Bagdasarow (ShowTime13): IT WORKS, MY GOD!
• (2022-06-01) Sasha Bagdasarow (ShowTime13): IT WORKS, MY GOD!
• (2022-05-16) Kelrisaith g: Does not currently work as it has in the past. One setting DOES work, and that is flipping "pause the player instead of stopping it" to off, however this both messes with video loading and kills the loop setting being on by default on shorts and such, in addition to making the page itself reload like twice when initially tabbing to it.
• (2022-05-16) Kelrisaith g: Does not currently work as it has in the past. One setting DOES work, and that is flipping "pause the player instead of stopping it" to off, however this both messes with video loading and kills the loop setting being on by default on shorts and such, in addition to making the page itself reload like twice when initially tabbing to it.
• (2022-05-13) KilliK 69: It's a quintessential addon and I have used it for years, but it has stopped working since the Chrome v100 update. I hope the developer will take notice of it and fix the problem, because the addon is completely useless right now.
• (2022-05-13) KilliK 69: It's a quintessential addon and I have used it for years, but it has stopped working since the Chrome v100 update. I hope the developer will take notice of it and fix the problem, because the addon is completely useless right now.
• (2022-04-15) Rau Schmiddl: Does not work anymore. Chrome Version: 100.0.4896.88
• (2022-04-15) Rau Schmiddl: Does not work anymore. Chrome Version: 100.0.4896.88
• (2022-03-31) Jupiter 0000: NIE DZIAŁA!
• (2022-03-13) Albert Scheidt: Works perfectly, now my videos charges faster :) nice addons i reccomend it ;)
• (2022-03-13) Albert Scheidt: Works perfectly, now my videos charges faster :) nice addons i reccomend it ;)
• (2022-02-28) Kevin Taylor: Is it getting fixed or should I just uninstall it, cause it's been broken for a while now !
• (2022-02-28) Kevin Taylor: Is it getting fixed or should I just uninstall it, cause it's been broken for a while now !
• (2022-02-21) A B: doesn't stop youtube videos from starting to play. win 11.
• (2022-02-21) A B: doesn't stop youtube videos from starting to play. win 11.