How To Turn Video and Audio Autoplay Off

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A Former User @burnout426 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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@ghostinthemachine Which URL are you referring to?

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@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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@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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@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 @Guest last edited by

@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).

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A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Thanks. I tried the extension as well, but that didn't work either.

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@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 @burnout426 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.

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burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@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.

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A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@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!

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@ghostinthemachine I'm uisng AutoplayStopper extension and it works here.