<![CDATA[Prevent video autoplay]]>News sites such as CNN.com include videos that automatically begin to play. I have no interest in most of these videos. Can you include an option to prevent video autoplay? It's a huge data waste to load all that video content.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/37176/prevent-video-autoplayRSS for NodeMon, 11 May 2026 12:28:03 GMTMon, 16 Dec 2019 19:27:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:09:43 GMT]]>Just remembering that extensions don't work on Opera for Mobiles.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/227009https://forums.opera.com/post/227009Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:09:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:59:03 GMT]]>@winblood Thanks.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/227008https://forums.opera.com/post/227008Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:59:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:04:47 GMT]]>@qrc007 I'm using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai but seems it's unmaintained 🤔

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/226858https://forums.opera.com/post/226858Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:04:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:11:03 GMT]]>@winblood said in Prevent video autoplay:

@MissDonna I concur, this is quite annoying. Using an extension for now.

Which extension are you using?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/226807https://forums.opera.com/post/226807Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:11:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:43:00 GMT]]>I agree, autoplay for videos and audios is very annoying, there should be a global setting to disable it for every website and it should not require external extensions.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/214349https://forums.opera.com/post/214349Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:43:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:39:49 GMT]]>@MissDonna I concur, this is quite annoying. Using an extension for now.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/213695https://forums.opera.com/post/213695Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:39:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:29:48 GMT]]>@MissDonna it's in 'settings > site settings'... you should be able to activate it just for cnn.com ?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193839https://forums.opera.com/post/193839Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:29:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Prevent video autoplay on Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:24:44 GMT]]>@MissDonna you can use an extension to prevent autoplay. Try https://addons.opera.com/es-419/extensions/details/disable-html5-autoplay/

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/192707https://forums.opera.com/post/192707Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:24:44 GMT