How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
@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.
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sporty78 last edited by sporty78
'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.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@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.
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sporty78 last edited by
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?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@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.
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sporty78 last edited by sporty78
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?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@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.
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sporty78 last edited by sporty78
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?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@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.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
@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.
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A Former User last edited by
@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?
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A Former User last edited by
@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.
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A Former User last edited by
@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.
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A Former User last edited by
@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.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ghostinthemachine said in How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off:
about:config...then found opera:config
opera://settingsto get to settings andopera://flagsto get to flags.about:configis indeed for Firefox/Mozilla andopera:configwas for the old, Presto-based Opera Suite (Opera 12). -
A Former User last edited by
@burnout426 Thanks. I tried the extension as well, but that didn't work either.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@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
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A Former User last edited by
@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.
