Instantly, loud music blared out of my speakers. I pulled up Kickstarter, searched for the project, and opened the page. Note that these changes may not squash every video, but it should work on a lot more than webpages than Chrome’s default setting.Last week I was in the middle of a teleconference when someone brought up a Kickstarter project. CNN’s autoplay is notoriously annoying, so we recommend that as a starting point. Go to whatever site you’ve been having issues with and make sure the changes have worked. We’ve chosen Chrome (no autoplay), but you could also name it ‘Chrome disable autoplay’, ‘video blocker Chrome’, or anything else. Make sure it’s after the quotes and a space, then press “Next”.Ĭall the shortcut whatever works for you, but make sure you can differentiate it from the normal Chrome. Next to the file location under “Type the location of the item”, add the parameter -autoplay-policy=user-required. It should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe. In the next screen, click the “Browse…” button and find Chrome’s exe. Right-click your desktop and choose “New > Shortcut”. If you have reason to be more aggressive, such as a data cap, there are no Chrome flags autoplay settings anymore, but you can halt them via a desktop shortcut. Here’s how to turn off autoplay in the browser: How to Mute All Autoplay Videos in Google Chrome Thankfully, there’s still a way to stop HTML5 autoplay on a lot of videos, and you can easily mute them automatically for the ones that slip through. You can check your own MEI navigating to the address chrome://media-engagement.Īs you can imagine, all of this leads to plenty of instances where Chrome still autoplays when you don’t want it to.
If the score is high enough, it enables autoplay. It counts a ‘significant media playback’ as a time when a user watches an audio and video stream for more than 7 seconds in their active tab at a resolution of more than 200×140 pixels. Google Chrome measures how often a user interacts with media on any given site. On desktop, the video’s Media Engagement Index (MEI) also comes into play. Any site that has been added to the home screen or installed as a PWA also has permission. It also allows autoplay with sound if the user has interacted with the domain, with a simple click on the webpage being enough. First, the browser enables autoplay without sound at all times, even if you’re on a metered connection.
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