How to stop videos from auto-playing

[Abuzar]

Hi,

I thought this was a feature that vivaldi provided, but I can't find it in settings. Searched online and I'm finding posts that it was removed. I found a page describing how to add extensions, but when I try to follow it, I can't seem to find the button to add more extensions in the tools|extensions section.

Can someone please help me out? Auto-playing is seriously disrupting my browsing experience. Especially want to stop youtube videos from playing.

If this isn't allowed in vivaldi, is there a way to get an official statement from developers as to why it was removed and is not being allowed?

Thank you

[BillyBootlace]

@abuzar

Hi there

I use this extension to stop videos auto-playing ...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ejddcgojdblidajhngkogefpkknnebdh?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog

Billy

[iAN CooG]

@abuzar said in How to stop videos from auto-playing:

I thought this was a feature that vivaldi provided, but I can't find it in settings. Searched online and I'm finding posts that it was removed.

It has never been a Vivaldi feature, no idea what have you read about it being removed.
Vivaldi only has a settings to stop animations (as in animated gifs), not for the autoplay of video files.
If you mean the internal chrome flag chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy this has never even worked anyway.
Autoplay Stopper extension is good, just install it and you don't have anything to setup.

[Abuzar]

Thanks for replying. What worked was going to the linked page and adding the extension from there, instead of tools|extensions that I saw in a tutorial. This shouldn't even be an extension, it should be part of the browser. Very frustrating. Obviously these horrible companies have autoplays and all these other frustrating tactics for crapitalist reasons. Their execs should be rotting in jail, instead of poor and marginalized people.

[BillyBootlace]

Hi there again

Although the Autoplay Stopper extension I mentioned in an earlier post is good, I found that even it struggled when it came to Youtube.
Since then I've come across one that performs even better.
It's called TurnOffTheLights and it can dim the screen around the video you're playing to make for better viewing.
However it also contains a video Auto Stop feature which works extremely well. So well in fact that I've switched to it.
You're getting two features for the price of one !!
Go here to get it ...

[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/turn-off-the-lights/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn]

The video Auto Stop feature is not switched on by default so once installed you have to right click on the extension icon, choose Options and then under Basics scroll down and tick Auto Stop.

Billy