You must’ve come across a very common irritating situation after enter a site with videos on the page which automatically start playing.
Often, this action can mess up with what you are doing at that moment or even scare you or annoy anyone nearby if the volume is too loud.
But if you’re a Google Chrome user, do not worry, in the tutorial below you’ll learn how to turn off automatic video playback in Chrome browser!
There are four steps to turn-off video auto play on Chrome as follows:
- Copy and paste the following link in Chrome: chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
- Search for “Autoplay policy”
- Click on the dropdown list which will open four options and choose “Document user activation is required” as shown in the image below:
4. Restart Chrome and navigate back to normal without worrying about autoplay.
This way you can accomplish stopping of this annoying automatic feature easily and also save money on data consumption and most importantly stop from being disturbing people nearby.