Ask HN: Stopping Autoplay Videos in Web Browsers

There's a Chrome extension called "Disable HTML5 Autoplay": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...

That's what I've been using but doesn't work 100% of the time. Not that it's the extensions fault, it does help. cnn.com has been the worst offender for me, I ended up just disabling javascript on their site just to stop the damn autoplay videos. The other trick I've been using is uBlock Origin (or your fav ad blocker) to block the video player completely.

firefox has media.autoplay.enabled and media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground flags in about:config

I will give this a try. Thank you.

FireFox on Android lets you disable autoplay on videos. This is why I switched from Chrome on mobile. Videos always seem to want to autoplay when I'm in a public place. Plus FireFox mobile has extensions so I can run adblock.

I still use Chrome everywhere else, though.