blocking autoplay videos
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laughinghyena last edited by
In the previous Opera update or two (86 to earlier 88?), it mentioned there was a feature added for blocking / controlling auto-play videos. I have done exhaustive searches and cannot find any setting anything close to this. I have searched the forums and blogs, and the only mention of it (feature requests) is from many years ago. How is this possible, if such a feature was recently added? At this point, I am guessing the changes list to the update(s) which mentioned it, were a total lie. That's ridiculous, and this feature was already massively overdue to be added years ago.
It sounds like the only actual option to block auto-play video is to use an extension. As I recall, that is not an option on mobile Opera for Android.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@laughinghyena Feature was added in Opera for Android 87: https://forums.opera.com/post/369066
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@laughinghyena There isn't a setting to control it as far as I know.
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laughinghyena last edited by laughinghyena
@leocg said in blocking autoplay videos:
@laughinghyena There isn't a setting to control it as far as I know.
There isn't.
abitkulova 31 Jan 2025, 04:25
@kjhkkggjj No setting has been added for this feature, blocking of video playback is automatic.Which makes it fairly useless when it fails. For a "prime" example, pardon the pun, on Amazon's product pages it fails to block the autoplay videos. They are quite thoroughly annoying, on most product pages, when scrolling through the product images. It takes multiple times of hitting pause to get them to stop! And then they hijack your Bluetooth focus, when it was set to something else.
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