In the following article, we will see how to turn off autoplay in Google Chrome or at least make it less disturbing. Furthermore, these videos are infuriating because they are often set to be played at a disturbingly loud volume. Even if they are not directly stopping you from using the website, they still act as a major distraction. Some sites even add them in a forced display which needs to be played to get access to what you wanted in the first place. Using mobile data, they consume more bandwidth than you expected. It helps with opening pages in the background that play audio or video content automatically though.Besides being annoying, these autoplay videos also slow down your browsing experience. If you want to limit autoplay, select 'Document user activation is required'.Â Note that this won't block autoplaying media completely, as media starts to play as soon as you interact with the page.

Document user activation is required - Users need to interact with the document before audio or video content is played automatically.Audio or video content loaded from other sites require user interaction. User gesture is required for cross-origin iFrames - Same as 'no user gesture is required' but only for same-origin media content.No user gesture is required - Users don't need to interact with the document for video or audio sources to start playing automatically.Click on the menu next to it, and select one of the available options:.Note that you do need Chrome 61 or newer on any of the supported operating systems to access the flag. Load chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy in the Chrome browser.

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