Visit this site and download the Stop YouTube HTML5 Autoplay plugin.To block HTML5 videos in Opera you need the same plugin as in Chrome. Show Advanced settings and select Content settings.Open Opera and select the menu icon and then Settings.Opera is based on Chromium, so the same instructions for Chrome apply. However, notice that it will also not automatically buffer in case you want to watch it later. Now when you land on a page, the video window should appear but not play automatically. Search for ‘’ and double click to set it to false.Click “I’ll be careful I promise” if you see the popup window.Open Firefox and type about:config into the URL bar.While many websites have gotten the message, there are a few out there (*cough* CNET *cough*) who think they know best what I want to see. Autoplaying video simply pushes users away from your site and towards sites that will treat them with more respect and courtesy. Not only do autoplaying videos annoy the users of a website, they waste your hosting bandwidth as well as the users’ data bandwidth. If users want to watch a video, they know how to push play. It’s even worse on mobile – not only is your screen real estate wasted by some invasive ad, you’re now paying data rates for a video that you didn’t want to see in the first place.Īutoplaying videos are bad design, but even worse than that, they are bad manners. It’s just as bad when you just browse to a web page and hear the video start playing before you even start to look at the page. That’s right, in one of those tabs, there’s a video and it’s set to autoplay, and now you get to play Hunt-The-Video through all your tabs to find it and shut it down, or just turn off your speakers altogether. We’ve all been there – you’ve got a dozen browser tabs or more open and you’re working (or playing) hard, when suddenly your speakers start spewing music or noise out of nowhere.

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