Y'know, youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay to work.
Yeah, if I know I'm going to a YT link I'm prepared for it. Unfortunately with the rise of URL shorteners I often don't know I'm going to a video site so I'm still undecided about whether I want the video to autoplay or not.
When you visit a video explicitly, yes. But when you jump into a specific channel you don't want a default video auto-playing all the time, which is pretty annoying.
Blame Youtube for that horrible feature, not the browser.
Nobody claimed it was anyone else's fault, that's already well established. The entire premise of this thread is to discuss OP's plea for browsers to actually fix the problem.
I never want youtube to Autoplay.
Not me for sure. Autoplay-after-autoplay makes it even more hilarious
>> youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay
Not me. I usually open a few tabs at the same time and have to stop every video manually. That's pretty annoying. I wish it didn't have autoplay.
YouTube doesn't start playing a video until you focus the tab.
That's not true for all browsers.
As @ben_bai pointed out above it works that way on Chromium.
Chromium is the Browser you want. You can load a bunch of tabs an it only starts autoplay when you finally switch to the tab you want to watch.
Best viewed with IE (tm), revisited.
The YouTube Plus add-on has an option to turn off YT autoplay, as well as a number of other quality-of-life things.