Google said recently that it is working on a simpler solution for this task. There are plenty of extensions in the Chrome Store to help you out as well. Now, a video will only play when you click on it. Then select ‘Document user activation is required’. To do so, you can click on a particular tab to select ‘mute website’.Īlternatively, to turn off autoplaying videos altogether, type ‘ chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy’ in the address bar and hit enter. For instance, you can allow your browser to autoplay videos, but mute them at the same time. Google has built some autoplay options directly into Chrome. If you don’t want to do this, browsers now allow you to turn off autoplay videos too.

Meanwhile, Facebook provides this toggle under ‘Setting> Video’. On Twitter, you’d find this option under ‘Setting> Content’. Social networks like Twitter and Facebook allow you to turn off autoplay directly from the settings menu. Here are some nifty ways you stop videos from playing automatically. You might be at work, opening a website to read some news, and suddenly a video will blast through your speakers. One of the pesky things about surfing the internet is the recent barrage of autoplaying videos on websites.

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