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Speaking of YouTube, you can also simply disable autoplay on Youtube videos if you’d prefer to do that exclusively, rather than turning off all autoplay in the entire web browser. You can immediately test it out by going to any webpage that autoplays video or audio, like a Bloomberg video article or Youtube.Īll video or audio now requires you to click on it before it will play (hence, user activation being required), nothing will autoplay without you allowing it to play in the first place.

Relaunch Chrome for the setting to take effect.

Look for “Autoplay policy” and pull down the submenu, then choose “Document user activation is required”.

In the search box at the top, type in “autoplay”.

Go to “chrome://flags” in the URL bar and hit Return/Enter.

Open Chrome or Chrome Canary if you have not done so already.

This works the same to end autoplay video and audio with Google Chrome for every operating system the browser works on, and perhaps the best thing about it is you won’t need to install a plugin or extension because the capability is native in Chrome.

How to Stop All Autoplay Video & Audio in Chrome Once activated, you must manually start playing audio or video in Google Chrome, all autoplay events will end. This goes beyond muting a tab or browser window in Chrome that is playing audio or video, as it actively prevents any Chrome browser tab or window from starting the media playing in the first place. The walkthrough below will show you exactly how to disable autoplay video and audio in the Google Chrome web browser.