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The best way to improve autoplay is to disable it. chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy

drewg123 8y ago
Which, sadly, does not actually work for me. I've had it disabled since it first appeared and it has barely made a difference. At least for the news site that play unwanted video. The best I've been able to do in Chrome is to block anything that looks like a CDN using Privacy Badger.
askvictor 8y ago
There is no disable option there (at least in Chrome 66).
- crystaln 8y ago
  "Document user activation required" is what you want.
  - tokyodude 8y ago
    Doesn't work. See above
voxadam 8y ago
In my experience the equivalent option in Firefox works quite well.
troydavis 8y ago
This flag doesn't do what it sounds like it does (and what it should). From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16367457#16370471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16367457#16370471: > Alas, this flag only prevents video that has sound from auto-playing. It’s the inadequate option that my earlier comment was referring to. > > Here’s more: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay > https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p... > > Quoting the blog post, Google’s decision that ”Muted autoplay is always allowed” is the problem. If any other Chrome users wondered why videos now auto-play without sound (even with this option set), at least based on the relatively minimal docs about this flag, this is why.
dredmorbius 8y ago
I block video content distribution sites at the source, via my router. Ditching Chrome is another excellent and recommended option.
crystaln 8y ago
Interesting. Setting this to "Document user activation required" eliminated all autoplay for me.
- taternuts 8y ago
  It seems to work intermittently for me at best. Bloomberg is a notable (notably annoying) example that not only autoplays (though at least without sound) but highjacks your first click on the video (usually trying to pause it) and enables sound instead.
  - crystaln 8y ago
    Hmm. Actually it seems to be less effective this week than in the past.
tokyodude 8y ago
Just tried it. Didn't work. First off the only options are "default", "no user gesture required", "user gesture is required for cross-origin iframes", "Document user activation is required". None of which sounds like "disable autoplay" Set the flag to "Document user activation is required", restarted browser, went to youtube, videos autoplay

Which, sadly, does not actually work for me. I've had it disabled since it first appeared and it has barely made a difference. At least for the news site that play unwanted video. The best I've been able to do in Chrome is to block anything that looks like a CDN using Privacy Badger.

askvictor 8y ago

There is no disable option there (at least in Chrome 66).

crystaln 8y ago
"Document user activation required" is what you want.
- tokyodude 8y ago
  Doesn't work. See above

voxadam 8y ago

In my experience the equivalent option in Firefox works quite well.

troydavis 8y ago

This flag doesn't do what it sounds like it does (and what it should). From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16367457#16370471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16367457#16370471: > Alas, this flag only prevents video that has sound from auto-playing. It’s the inadequate option that my earlier comment was referring to. > > Here’s more: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay > https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p... > > Quoting the blog post, Google’s decision that ”Muted autoplay is always allowed” is the problem. If any other Chrome users wondered why videos now auto-play without sound (even with this option set), at least based on the relatively minimal docs about this flag, this is why.

dredmorbius 8y ago

I block video content distribution sites at the source, via my router. Ditching Chrome is another excellent and recommended option.

crystaln 8y ago

Interesting. Setting this to "Document user activation required" eliminated all autoplay for me.

taternuts 8y ago
It seems to work intermittently for me at best. Bloomberg is a notable (notably annoying) example that not only autoplays (though at least without sound) but highjacks your first click on the video (usually trying to pause it) and enables sound instead.
- crystaln 8y ago
  Hmm. Actually it seems to be less effective this week than in the past.

tokyodude 8y ago

Just tried it. Didn't work. First off the only options are "default", "no user gesture required", "user gesture is required for cross-origin iframes", "Document user activation is required". None of which sounds like "disable autoplay" Set the flag to "Document user activation is required", restarted browser, went to youtube, videos autoplay