AutoplayStopper

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Stops video autoplay gracefully.

Latest reviews

• (2025-07-05) ChrisL: I do hope this keeps working. I use it in edge as I quit using Chrome because it keeps stopping this extension for me. Autoplay stop should work like in FireFox or Safari.
• (2025-07-05) V W: Why is Chrome blocking this vital extension ? It worked perfectly well for ages. What does "This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions" actually mean ? Under "Learn" it says we should be able to re-enable this extension in the bottom right of its pane under Manage Extensions. But that is already enabled and yet Chrome is still blocking it ! Chrome also says to find an alternative extension, but does not provide any suggestions on the page where it says they should be. Not good enough Chrome ! But if the developer is listening, please can you please do an updated version to appease Chrome ?
• (2025-06-02) AG: I love this extension. It stopped working today on Vivaldi (a FANTASTIC fully I customizable browser I replaced the cursed Chrome with), but once I uninstalled and reinstalled it, we are back in business. Hallelujah!
• (2025-05-23) Sweet Dreams: There are new kind of ads that autoplay in video and then it consumes your network this prevented the websites from playing those videos - not working on reddit 30.07 2024 - not working on Yandex 23.05 2025
• (2025-05-08) Brennan Armacost: This used to work, but now all videos play automatically.
• (2025-04-04) Neanda Darrow: this was so good, it's only when it stopped working did i notice how much i needed it. Please, developer, update it
• (2025-03-30) Christopher Hauck: works perfectly as long as chrome doesn't disable it without telling me why it "doesn't follow best practices" it stops autoplay, on ALL videos, as LITERALLY EVERYONE WANTS it still lets you whitelist sites like netflix(the sites that the only videos playing are ones you want to autoplay) and even lets you keep watching the next video without manual intervention unlike some alternatives hey google, tell me why SPECIFICALLY this extension is not good, because i think it 100% is as it does exactly and only what I want NATIVE to ALL browsers
• (2025-03-20) Arphynion B.: 3/20/2025 - Works fine still. Using Vivaldi browser. Don't listen to the bomb reviews. It works.
• (2025-03-11) TheHolyArk (TheHolyArk): "This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions." What? It followed "best practices" until now and it's a simple extension that used to be by default on Youtube! Horrible user experience from Google/Youtube! Blocking good and efficient QOL extensions! They even removed the Manifest V2 settings from chrome://flags/ so users can't revert the block!
• (2025-03-08) Jordan F: PLEASE fix this plugin so it works again! Auto play must be stopped!!!
• (2025-03-07) Matthias Van Den Bosch: FIX THE ADDON. CHROME IS ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT WITHOUT AUTOPLAY STOPPER. I AM DOWNLOADING ALL YOUTUBE VIDEOS,REFUSING TO USE YOUTUBE.COM, SO LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO FORCE AUTOPLAY WHEN WE DON'T WANT IT!!!! <3
• (2025-03-04) YUUMETAL: Why Google stopped this ad on? I always opens many tabs, so everytime I start PC, many videos automatically start. its so annoying.
• (2025-03-03) Katrina Majewski: This was a great extension. I'm really disappointed that as of today (Mar. 3, 2025) chrome alerted me that the extension is no longer supported.
• (2025-02-24) Marcus Soles: Doesn't work on all sites. For example, doesn't work on MSN. Unfortunately it is about the only autoplay blocker available. Wish someone would develop a more effective blocker. I cannot stand autoplay!
• (2025-02-16) Dante Lectro: Hasn't been updated since September 10, 2023. No longer works on Twitch.
• (2025-02-02) michael chamberlain: Very fast
• (2025-01-22) Conrad Scott Ahava (TOOGAM): AutoplayStopper has worked very well. This doesn't block all ads (e.g., when watching YouTube, ads still show up), so it's not like cheating (trying to avoid ads when actively using a service funded by revenue from ads sent to me). One side effect is that I may need to click on a video before videos on a site will work. and do this once per tab. Also, pluto.tv couldn't show content until I made an exception to allow videos for that site. Overall the web browser has been much more stable since installing this extension.
• (2025-01-21) Randy Henry: 11/11/23 - I installed this to stop the annoying Amazon influencer videos from playing in Brave Browser. So far it's working.
• (2025-01-21) Randy Henry: 11/11/23 - I installed this to stop the annoying Amazon influencer videos from playing in Brave Browser. So far it's working.
• (2025-01-17) Franz: Works perfectly on Brave
• (2025-01-16) Abdullah Almahmud: It was a good extension; unfortunately, Google is killing it too.
• (2025-01-05) Adrian Gregory: When I click on a youtube video, it still plays. Isn't it supposed to prevent that? When I refresh the page it doesn't autoplay but most of the time I'm clicking on a new video and it's not working
• (2024-12-30) Christine Davis: This is the best of its kind I've found, but it may soon be unsupported due to Google's shift from Manifest V2 to V3. I kindly ask the developer to update it to Manifest V3 for continued use.
• (2024-12-20) Mark Wilkinson: Google killed it - said it was disabled and removed because it doesn't follow Google's best practices...whatever that means. Can we please get an update from the developer? Or is Google's right-hand killing it so the left-hand (YouTube) can keep punishing us by not providing an internal auto-play-stopping option?
• (2024-12-05) Tran Hung: it works, but when play the video, we could not block autoplay for that video again and some web, some time it work well, some time it is not able to block autoplay, some time it I can't play the video when I want
• (2024-12-05) Tran Hung: it works, but when play the video, we could not block autoplay for that video again and some web, some time it work well, some time it is not able to block autoplay, some time it I can't play the video when I want
• (2024-11-27) Amit Pathak: Excellent such distraction removal app. I was thinking many years... why I am getting distracted.. reason was the auto-played videos. ;-)
• (2024-10-20) Adam S: One of the few extensions of this kind which actually does what it advertises well. I just hope it can and will be updated to Manifest V3...
• (2024-10-16) H EP: Great app. Does it's job. We shouldn't need an app to stop videos from playing but Youtube does what it wants and doesn't listen to users. Google stop the "best practices" BS. We need a way to stop videos from automatically playing. Until then we will always want and need this app and the like. Don't like it STOP THE AUTO-PLAY
• (2024-10-02) Arseniy Aharonov: A great extension that stops this annoying auto-play out of nowhere if one of tabs has a video. Dear @Google, if you don't like this extension since according to you it's not up to your "best practices", then give an alternative way to stop auto-play instead of bullying extensions that fix your lacking in proper feature set (which by the way other browsers provide, spoiler alert, even those based on the chromium project).
• (2024-09-29) Jessica S. (darkocean): Ah that's a little better it does stop the stupid videos from playing. Please consider making the videos comply disappear from websites thank you. I want the distracting things gone. Thank you for this at least they aren't moving now.
• (2024-09-28) Jonathan James-Parks: audio still plays in the background if youre trying to block channel trailers from auto playing. please revise
• (2024-09-27) C W: Please update with v3 manifest support if possible, it's the only HTML5 autoplay blocker that actually works with any reliability
• (2024-09-23) *: On IMDB it disables the video controls altogether. Although it's still possible to Play/Pause in the context menu but all the rest, like Full Screen or Fast Forward, are not accessible. Better than Brave's builtin; at least lets Youtube playlists run.
• (2024-09-08) Jordan Wilson: doesnt work on twitch
• (2024-08-14) Gary Ying: It only works on 'open new tab'. If you just left click the video, it won't work.
• (2024-08-09) Kevin Tabb: Please update with v3 manifest support! It's the best universal autoplay blocker with built-in "play" button for override. Add a ko-fi link and I'll gladly donate.
• (2024-08-07) Ovi “Ovi I K” K: Its your Gurad when it come to browsing on TIKTOK and IG , so annoying their autoplay tricky silly way to get your attenion, this tool throught away that noise on any website ! So usefull for Content creator or any guy browsing for Hours a day.
• (2024-08-06) Krittin Pukavanutch: Always working until recently this pop up showing "This extension may soon no longer be supported" And I can't find any other extension that can work like this one, to stop youtube video completely at chrome startup. Please update to make it could continue working in the future, really appreciate your hard work.
• (2024-08-02) Google User: Working so far in 2024! Let's hope the developer updates it soon before it's no longer functional in 2025. It also has options available to add as exceptions, but limited. It is also rather slow to block autoplay on some sites.
• (2024-07-27) AG Moyer: Half what I was looking for. If I open a video in a new tab it does pause it right away without giving the video a chance to buffer but opening a video directly autoplays which is what I've been trying to stop.
• (2024-07-25) Ar. At.: Extension blocks google meet, please fix this or add an option to resolve this
• (2024-07-18) Lumen Wang: This extension has a bug: it prevents my Chrome from correctly accessing my camera so that I cannot use Chrome for meetings and interviews. I'd like to submit this problem to the developer here.
• (2024-07-12) biggusdictus: doesn't work on epicgames site
• (2024-07-12) Disc Dfs: Stopped blocking all of the sudden. Websites must be constantly updating to bypass auto-play blocker extensions, then, in turn, must update to overcome the new bs LLCs push. They have the nerve to push narratives like crypto is bad because of energy consumption while forcing autoplay down everyone's throats.
• (2024-07-02) Michael Alan: This addon does not seem to be working for me anymore. It was working very well all up to today Tue 7/2/2024.
• (2024-06-29) Joanna G: I'm happy with this add-on. I get really annoyed when I just browse to read the article and look at attached photos, and the site forces a video play (that's unrelated to the article). So far, I've only tested it on about 7 websites, and it works well. No issues as of yet so no contact with developer. If it starts misbehaving, no big deal, I'll just uninstall it and look for something else. Using on Chrome Version 126.0.6478.127 (Official Build) (64-bit).
• (2024-06-28) Teemu Uusitalo: Finally found this extension again. I love it. No more annoying autoplay when i browse through my browser tabs looking for that specific thumbnail...
• (2024-06-19) Tim M.: If you enable the flash detection blocker (even thoug it is unnecessary these days), it will cause massive issues on several websites and will let you fail in every single Cloudflare challenge. Also, fails on more and more embedded videos, most likely since not updated for some time already now, and also gives you issues with others. Developer is not responding to bug reports.
• (2024-06-18) Jonathan Cox: This extension works really good, especially considering the fact that I brought it back to Brave, because it has a glitch with its own autoplay feature. Whenever I played a video, it plays 1-2 seconds of it before stopping. But that's nothing this extension can't fix! Don't take my word for it, it's still good!