<![CDATA[Stop Video autoplay]]>Just read a forum post from 2017 where a user was begging for a way to stop videos from auto-playing. Well, here we are at the end of 2019 and guess what.. the confounded videos still keep playing. I don't believe I should need to go searching for obscure 3rd-party apps to complete a basic browser function.

I use the News function on the home page extensively, and almost every new page I open kick-starts a video, stealing speed and bandwidth, and interfering with the music I am trying to listen to. This is so annoying.

So, rather than customising the fripperies, like tabs with fancy colo(u)rs, . I'm sure we would all be so grateful.

Thanks in advance.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/37223/stop-video-autoplayRSS for NodeFri, 08 May 2026 10:27:00 GMTThu, 19 Dec 2019 12:26:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:23:16 GMT]]>@leocg
ok, thanks leocg

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193264https://forums.opera.com/post/193264Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:23:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:21:15 GMT]]>@burnout426
Thanks burnout426, not sure I understand the command but I'll try it out once I have a bit of time, cheers for the help.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193263https://forums.opera.com/post/193263Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:21:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Sat, 21 Dec 2019 08:23:50 GMT]]>@operajohn57 To try the commands on Mac, I would guess you'd do this:

In Opera, goto the URL opera://about and take note of the install location. Then, close Opera.

Open up the Terminal app and enter this command:

open /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera --args --disable-features=PreloadMediaEngagementData,AutoplayIgnoreWebAudio,MediaEngagementBypassAutoplayPolicies

(Adjust the path to Opera to what opera://about says.)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193207https://forums.opera.com/post/193207Sat, 21 Dec 2019 08:23:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:43:27 GMT]]>@operajohn57 Opera is a Chromium based browser, so it will/should follow Chromium auto-play policy.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193198https://forums.opera.com/post/193198Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:43:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:32:57 GMT]]>@burnout426 Hi burnout426, I'm using a Mac machine, so I don't think .exe commands will work... but I'm just a user, not a programmer or developer, so happy to learn something new if necessary.

operajohn57

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193197https://forums.opera.com/post/193197Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:32:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:30:38 GMT]]>@leocg Hi leocg, thanks for the link. I am not a programmer or developer, so I don't understand why a link to a Chromium page is appropriate, nevertheless the information on that page seems to be saying that developers should not use auto-play unnecessarily, and should make it easy for users to switch it off anyway. So, the programming standard is there, I woulkd like to know why Opera doesn't follow this standard and how I can stop the videos playing. The on/off switch should be a basic operation within the browser and not reliant on me sourcing a 3rd-party app from somewhere on the web.
Thanks again.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193196https://forums.opera.com/post/193196Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:30:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Fri, 20 Dec 2019 06:47:52 GMT]]>I wonder if

launcher.exe --disable-features=PreloadMediaEngagementData,AutoplayIgnoreWebAudio,MediaEngagementBypassAutoplayPolicies

still works like the autoplay-policy-changes page says.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193073https://forums.opera.com/post/193073Fri, 20 Dec 2019 06:47:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Stop Video autoplay on Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:09:42 GMT]]>@operajohn57 See https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay and https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/193002https://forums.opera.com/post/193002Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:09:42 GMT