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> I’m delighted when YouTube’s annoying autoplay-next-video is foiled by it. YouTube has this built-in nowadays. The button is at the bottom of the player, on
by mkdirp 5y ago
> I’m delighted when YouTube’s annoying autoplay-next-video is foiled by it.
YouTube has this built-in nowadays. The button is at the bottom of the player, on the right hand side, on the left of the subtitles/captions button.
- input_sh 5y agoI believe that the commenter above is referring to instant playback when you click on a YouTube link, not about autoplaying the next video. Though I have that in vanilla Firefox and it works fine for me on YouTube.
- jchw 5y agoI don’t think they ever shipped it without the ability to disable it, I’m just happy it doesn’t work by default. It will try, but it can’t actually play unless you click. This tiny detail made me instantly feel more in control again. Makes me wonder what the web would be like if browsers were never subject to this conflict of interest in the first place and always prioritized keeping the user in control.
- oauea 5y agoI like it when I tell a website it can play video, that it can also play more video without having me click again and again.
- jchw 5y agoEasy fix: just allow it to autoplay using the icon in the address bar. And you can add this allowance permanently. This is how it should work. It only doesn’t because autoplay is great for metrics and it’s nice for their metrics that all major browsers allow YouTube to autoplay.
- rhizome 5y agoGreat! Have a "play next automatically" toggle with an "always do this" checkbox.
- dceddia 5y agoYeah, the annoying thing about that button is it defaults to “on”, though. So if you’re, say, opening a video in incognito because you want to watch a single video without that channel being recommended for the next 6 months, that little autoplay button is always toggling itself back on.
- dessant 5y agoI use my own extension to always disable the automatic playback of the next video on YouTube. https://github.com/dessant/youtube-autoplay#readme https://github.com/dessant/youtube-autoplay#readme
- majewsky 5y agoYes, but it defaults to on, which is rather annoying when you auto-wipe cookies frequently to hinder tracking.