The Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin for Chrome still works pretty well ... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglid

The Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin for Chrome still works pretty well ... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... The author has stopped maintaining the plugin though because Google is supposedly addressing the issue at the browser level. Edit: This seems to be the recommended fix for Chrome ... Set ... chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy to ... "Document user activation is required."