Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ icon

Disable Autoplay for YouTube™

by Lynn

v0.1.4 Updated Sep 14, 2025 37.86KiB
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20K
Users
★ 3.14
208 reviews
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Description

Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ is a lite extension that lets you easily stop/pause YouTube videos from auto-playing. The toolbar button serves as an ON|OFF switch for this addon (the icon will change color accordingly). The red color shows an active state and the dark grey color shows a disabled state. To work with this addon, please add this addon to your browser and then start browsing YouTube. When the addon is active, videos are stopped automatically from playing when you open one. When videos are stopped, the buffering does not continue. You can change this behavior from the options page and let the videos "pause" instead of "stop". This way, the buffering continues but the video won't play. There is another option on the settings page to play or pause videos when a tab is focused or hidden (unfocused). These two options are not active by default. This addon works for all YouTube videos whether they are embedded or not. However, you can disable this feature from the settings page. Note 1: when you switch to the miniplayer, the video stops again. So if you want to use the youtube miniplayer feature, please turn off this addon. Note 2: by default, this addon does not work for youtube shorts and the small video player on the channel page. To enable this feature, please mark option #3 on the settings page. To report bugs, please fill out the bug report form on the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/disable-autoplay.html).
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Reviews (74 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-29
Moofficer

doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-20
Bob Bob

Does not work - Windows Chrome Youtube via website.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-21
Sory-RN

It doesnt work with 7kttube and adblock havent tried it without

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-23
AJ

Another useless, non-working extension. Why does NOTHING work to stop autoplay? This is ridiculous, I can't wait to ditch Chrome and go back to a real browser that doesn't suck gigantic donkey balls

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-17
KPKana1726

design you rap better it crashes and stops YouTube from working gproperly

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-16
Lucian T. Skeptic

Didn't work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-11
Jason Potter

It blocks autoplay, but you can't get rid of the block if you want to start the video - clicking on the red block does nothing. Ridiculous.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-14
Danielle Yousif

does not work. videos continue to autolay

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-29
Kirill Bykov

Simply does not work: videos starts playing just when tab opens.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-15
James Bond

does not work

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-27
Ken Shain

Just plain DOES NOT WORK!

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-23
Swift Kordyne

What "Autoplay" is on YouTube is a feature that automatically plays a video after one ends. This extension, contrary to its title, does not do that.

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-02
polarbear

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-06
John Lewis

Third Update: In less than 24 hours after reinstalling this extension, it fails to stop videos from automatically playing. I don't know why. I reload the pages after enabling this extension, but it will not perform as expected today. Yes, it did perfrom yesterday, but today I'm uninstalling it again for the aforementioned reasons. Second Update: I don't remember exactly when, but earlier this year I uninstalled this extension because it didn't work more often than it did work. Today, Wednesday, November 12, 2025 I reinstalled it because it currently works to stop YouTube videos, YouTube shorts, and Youtube videos on YouTube channels' Home tabs. Nice work, Lynn, thank you! I hope I have a better experience with your extension this time. Update: Today is Monday, February 10, 2025. This extension works great when it wants to work. So, I'm adjusting my rating because I find that I must disable it, then re-enable it to keep it working. Today is Thursday, February 6, 2025. This extension works great! Thank you, Lynn!

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-06
Mischiew

Doesn't work at all. Likely outdated?

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-28
Wasseem Atalla

useless. It doesn't help. waste of time

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-28
Stuart Tight

useless... videos still autoplay when opening them, regardless of settings

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-26
Ahmed Seoudi

Not working!

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-24
Owr

stopped working as of today. Not sure why. 10/28/24

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-19
Ayush Desai

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-15
Alice Noel

It doesn't work in playlists and videos have a black screen.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-01
CityCalmDown

This does not work. A pity as an extension like this would be great. Better of course would be for Youtube to restore the option to turn off autoplay but they won't for reasons that they refuse to explain. Which suggests the basest motives.

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-07
james gloval

Has not work all year. Wish I could give ZERO 000000000 STAR REVIEWS. SKIP.

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-10
Jeff Eyges

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-09
Andrey L.

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-04
Soroush Kefayati

not working

★☆☆☆☆2023-04-16
Konstantin

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-24
Raphaël Menegaldo

Does not work...

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-14
john

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-02
Oleksii L

not working at all

★☆☆☆☆2023-02-02
Christian Miersch

This does not work at all.

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-21
Mark Homburg

Just installed the extension. I've tried everything including restarting the browser from scratch and the extension does not work at all. I'm using the latest Chrome browser and I'm attempting to play a single song. It just continues to play a new auto selected song. I DOESN'T WORK

★☆☆☆☆2022-09-12
Samson Bishop

DOESN'T WORK!!!

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-24
Damien Casoni

Doesn't do what's supposed to do.

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-02
Xander Juneau

Doesn't do what it says. Don't waste your time.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-12
Yevhen Troshchii

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2022-04-20
Brian Plautz

This app fails to disable autoplay!

★☆☆☆☆2022-03-08
bruno ch

Doesn't work on youtube web browser (May 2022). Windows 64 bits

★☆☆☆☆2022-02-07
Johan Hereora Hummerhielm

It's not working. Videos keep playing anyway. Trash.

★☆☆☆☆2021-11-24
Czerwinski Benoit

Not working.

★☆☆☆☆2021-10-13
blue

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-06
Noetic Concordance

Surprise surprise it does not actually do anything except ad a little icon on you browsers tool bar. It is kind of like a piece of jewelry for you browser.

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-06
Stephen Pattinson

Doesn't appear to work. Am I doing something wrong or is it just out of date?

★☆☆☆☆2021-07-06
PhilTact

Does nothing.

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-17
Anas EL BOUDALI

this extention has NO FUNCTIONALITY

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-14
Jay Cee

Doesn't work at all. Click on a youtube video, then it plays automatically.

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-28
Jem Crystal (Jem Fay Crystal)

update: nvm it stopped working today ___ Works as intended but it stops the vid at the BEGINNING of the video. What I need is when sharing my lessons with students to stop the video at the point where I share the lesson. Youtube "Share" you can copy paste a url that puts you at point on vid. If I try use this extension and youtube share exact spot on vid this extension will not let me go spot on vid.

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-24
James Hamilton

sucks. does not work

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-24
Víðarr Kerr

The extension no longer works. The video is stopped, but then it is completely unable to resume. YouTube just displays an error message. This extension is broken on all my browsers on my Win10 machine and all my browsers on my Ubuntu machine.

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-22
Hosty

IT STOPPED WORKING 3 DAYS AGO .. YOUTUBE NOW GIVES ME AN ERROR ON THE VIDEO!

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Details

Version 0.1.4
Updated Sep 14, 2025
Size 37.86KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026