<![CDATA[How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off]]>68.0 3618.104

Hello.

Website video and audio settings are enabled in Opera even when 'play' has not been clicked.

Step by step, how are video and audio autoplay disabled? .

There should be a way to do it within 'settings' but I am obviously missing something because I cannot see it for this version.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/40789/how-to-turn-video-and-audio-autoplay-offRSS for NodeTue, 19 May 2026 11:02:14 GMTSun, 17 May 2020 20:44:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 11:44:02 GMT]]>@ghostinthemachine I'm uisng AutoplayStopper extension and it works here.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212142https://forums.opera.com/post/212142Sun, 24 May 2020 11:44:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 09:42:53 GMT]]>@burnout426 Thank you! Perfect. And thank you for your time and effort. Too many autoupdates, hard to know what turns on what anymore! Zuckerberg trying to become the most hated person on the planet!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212136https://forums.opera.com/post/212136Sun, 24 May 2020 09:42:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 09:12:48 GMT]]>@ghostinthemachine said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:

Facebook

For Facebook, you just goto https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=videos and turn off autoplay.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212135https://forums.opera.com/post/212135Sun, 24 May 2020 09:12:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 09:09:11 GMT]]>@burnout426 Disable HTML5 Autoplay
Version 0.6.2 was the one I tried. The site you just gave as more options than the one you posted at the beginning of this thread. Wow, a lot more. Any suggestions....Win 10 Pro operating system, Opera browser, and it's Facebook. I don't use YouTube enough to make it an issue. I do very little surfing, and Opera is used generally for very few and specific sites regularly.

I'm not seeing anything related in Settings.

In Flags, I've enabled Audio Focus Enforcement and Media Session Service.

Doubt that will stop Autoplay, but maybe since I seen someplace that stopping audio autoplay would also stop video autoplay. Honestly, this setup just doesn't make any sense to me.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212133https://forums.opera.com/post/212133Sun, 24 May 2020 09:09:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 08:52:26 GMT]]>@ghostinthemachine said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:

I tried the extension as well, but that didn't work either.

Which one? There are lots of them at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/autoplay?_category=extensions

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212130https://forums.opera.com/post/212130Sun, 24 May 2020 08:52:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 08:45:53 GMT]]>@burnout426 Thanks. I tried the extension as well, but that didn't work either.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212128https://forums.opera.com/post/212128Sun, 24 May 2020 08:45:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 07:31:50 GMT]]>@ghostinthemachine said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:

about:config...then found opera:config

opera://settings to get to settings and opera://flags to get to flags. about:config is indeed for Firefox/Mozilla and opera:config was for the old, Presto-based Opera Suite (Opera 12).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212124https://forums.opera.com/post/212124Sun, 24 May 2020 07:31:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 06:03:58 GMT]]>@burnout426 well, went back up to what you suggested at the beginning, and that didn't work either. So I'll try adding the extension you suggest as a total failure option tomorrow. Don't really want to add an extension, but if that works, that's what I'll go with. Thanks for the positive reply though. Autoplaying videos and gifs is a real pain in a browser since you are not really likely to be looking in the right place when they start on a computer. On a phone, it may be alright, I'll never know.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212121https://forums.opera.com/post/212121Sun, 24 May 2020 06:03:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 05:56:45 GMT]]>@ghostinthemachine about:config was suppose to be for Firefox I believe, though it was rather confusing as well, the sites were saying it was for Opera which was what I was looking for.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212118https://forums.opera.com/post/212118Sun, 24 May 2020 05:56:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 05:54:37 GMT]]>@burnout426 there was about:config...then found opera:config, but neither took me anywhere except search results, so wasn't able to get into where they were saying to be able to turn it off, or any settings at all for that matter.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212117https://forums.opera.com/post/212117Sun, 24 May 2020 05:54:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 05:41:15 GMT]]>@ghostinthemachine Which URL are you referring to?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212116https://forums.opera.com/post/212116Sun, 24 May 2020 05:41:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 24 May 2020 03:32:17 GMT]]>@burnout426 oh god, another URL to try? What, this is the 3rd one! The first 2 I was told to use did not work, not at all. So what is it? You ever heard of KISS?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/212107https://forums.opera.com/post/212107Sun, 24 May 2020 03:32:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Mon, 18 May 2020 05:23:48 GMT]]>@sporty78 Yep. Don't get me wrong. I'm with you and think the current situation is unfortunate. But, that's what Google has chosen to do.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211225https://forums.opera.com/post/211225Mon, 18 May 2020 05:23:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:43:45 GMT]]>@burnout426

The information is appreciated.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211200https://forums.opera.com/post/211200Sun, 17 May 2020 21:43:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:38:48 GMT]]>@sporty78 said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:

Are you saying that the website that you listed is an exception to this rule

The condition is an exception. There are lots of rules. See https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes.

If you post in a Chromium forum and get the feature added to Chromium, Opera would automatically get the feature.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211198https://forums.opera.com/post/211198Sun, 17 May 2020 21:38:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:32:01 GMT]]>That is foolish since users should not have website video and audio content forced on them. The next version of Opera should have a disabled video option.

Are you saying that the website that you listed is an exception to this rule that disables the video when the audio is disabled but this is not the case for most websites?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211194https://forums.opera.com/post/211194Sun, 17 May 2020 21:32:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:28:33 GMT]]>@sporty78 Pretty much except for the cases where disabling audio disables playback like with https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_video_autoplay if you copy the address, open a new tab and paste the URL into it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211191https://forums.opera.com/post/211191Sun, 17 May 2020 21:28:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:30:07 GMT]]>@burnout426

To be 'crystal-clear,' then, Opera audio can be disabled but video is enabled by default and, at this point, there is no way to disable it?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211190https://forums.opera.com/post/211190Sun, 17 May 2020 21:30:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:24:03 GMT]]>@sporty78 said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:

'Why is there not a settings/content/video' option that turns video off the same way?

Because Google doesn't want one in Chromium and Opera didn't patch Chromium to work around it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211189https://forums.opera.com/post/211189Sun, 17 May 2020 21:24:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:22:36 GMT]]>@burnout426

You clearly explained that turning sound off in Opera is simple.

'Why is there not a settings/content/video' option that turns video off the same way?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211187https://forums.opera.com/post/211187Sun, 17 May 2020 21:22:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:21:29 GMT]]>@sporty78 said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:

I do not use Google Chrome so it is a moot point to find a solution for that browser.

Opera and Chrome are both Chromium-based. Opera has what ever settings Chromium (and therefore Chrome) has for this. So, finding a solution for Chromium will work for Opera too. But, in short, it's just the way Chromium works and Chromium no longer has an autoplay setting. There used to be a flag, but they removed it in favor of the sound setting and the autoplay policy that deals with media engagement and all the rules they follow.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211185https://forums.opera.com/post/211185Sun, 17 May 2020 21:21:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:18:08 GMT]]>@burnout426

'Audio' turns the sound off but the 'video' would still be playing.

Why is there not a settings/content/video' option that turns video off the way that sound can be turned off? I am 'obviously' missing something,

I do not use Google Chrome so it is a moot point to find a solution for that browser.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211183https://forums.opera.com/post/211183Sun, 17 May 2020 21:18:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:13:30 GMT]]>@sporty78 said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:

Is there a way to disable video AND audio autoplay within Opera 'without' going to individual websites?

At the URL opera://settings/content/sound, you would just turn off "allow sites to play sounds" so that all sites are muted by default. You'd then click the speaker on the left-side of the tab to unmute it. Whether it actually stops autoplay though depends on a lot of things like whether you visited the page directly or clicked a link from the same site to get to it or how often you've interacted with it. It's complicated.

If you find a perfect solution for Chrome, it should work in Opera too.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211182https://forums.opera.com/post/211182Sun, 17 May 2020 21:13:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off on Sun, 17 May 2020 21:11:43 GMT]]>@burnout426

Is there a way to disable video AND audio autoplay within Opera 'without' going to individual websites?

Firefox makes it so easy by having a 'disable video and audio autoplay' option under permissions.

Either I am missing something or I am being unclear in what I want to do.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/211180https://forums.opera.com/post/211180Sun, 17 May 2020 21:11:43 GMT