Option to disable autoplay video
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More and more sites add automatically played videos, not only is it annoying, it also leads to increased traffic consumption. Please, add the ability to disable auto playback of video at browser level.
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One of the reasons I decided to drop Chrome eventually, was because they removed the option to disable auto-play videos from Chrome. In my search for a replacement for Chrome, Vivaldi impressed me with its unique capabilities, both in the Android and desktop versions. ad blocking feature especially language specific filters, note taking, screenshot of web pages, web panel and etc all so good. But the lack of the option to stop automatic playback of videos in web pages is a deal-breaker for me.
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Yes please!
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This is a mandatory feature for me, on mobile.
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Hi,
I surely agree with what the other users of vivaldi mobile version are stating in here about being able to have a setting to prevent videos from playing automatically. -
Firefox blocks all media with sound from playing automatically, by default.
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@poopooracoocoo True. But worked only sometimes as it was linked to sites coding.
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I just plan on being patient & wait for this feature to be implemented hopefully in the near future. To be candid with everyone, I did have the kiwi mobile browser installed on my android phone a short time ago. It also has a built-in setting for disabling auto play. Everyone please stay safe !!
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@Davy49 said in Option to disable autoplay video:
I just plan on being patient & wait for this feature to be implemented hopefully in the near future. To be candid with everyone, I did have the kiwi mobile browser installed on my android phone a short time ago. It also has a built-in setting for disabling auto play. Everyone please stay safe !!
Well for how long can we be patient? We all know how terrible it is to suddenly have offensively loud and sickening audio blasted through your browser because some lowlife decided that that's a good thing to do to their website's users. The question is why is this autoblocking feature yet another feature that has been pushed back for so long "because there are more urgent and important things"? That's quite nonsense. Especially now that this feature is pretty much standard, it just shows how bad the priorities are in Vivaldi's development. This seriously sucks, because it's the only decent browser in many other ways, but stuff like this just kills it.
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I definitely agree. Blocking autoplay also needs to catch those sites that manage to play media despite NoScript. Many news sites manage to do this, and it's just as annoying as any other video.
One wonders why the news sites do it. I visit some site to read an article, scroll past the embedded video, because I'm not interested, and - the video pops up in the corner and starts playing? WTF? This just makes me try to avoid the site in the future.
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yeah sorry, this is essential functionality. switching to FF again until the feature is here.
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Yes, please! It's so frustrating not being able to control that... And it gets word with augmented data consumption!
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How do we upvote this request? I'd like to see this in Vivaldi.
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@ramouz said in Option to disable autoplay video:
How do we upvote this request?
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I'm adding a comment so this hopefully gets more attention. This feature is missing on mobile.
It would be really nice if no old access to the vivaldi:flags and other settings to force behavior like this.
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For PC I use "Disable HTML 5 autoplay" extension, but for mobile it's essential.
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@slavau I do too but it doesn't work on all sites. Blocking video autoplay is an essential, core browser function these days and the fact Vivaldi still doesn't have this is quite embarrassing in my view.
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Essential function! This thread is three years old though, hope it won't take another three years before we see this feature implemented.
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This feature should be an integral part of every browser!
I wonder why it has not been implemented before, seeing so many features that Vivaldi has?!