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[CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED] An extension for Chromium-based browsers that disables autoplay of HTML5 audio and video

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2017-01-20 · latest 2019-10-28

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  1. Its possible to shim Video decoding API and block/ignore until user input. https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay/blob/maste...
    comment by rasz · 2019-10-28 · in Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
  2. There's a plugin that disables autoplay. https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto...
  3. disable autoplay: https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay (until chrome gets their shit together)
  4. …on [1]. It works on some websites for now, but will probably be circumvented in the future. [1] https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay/blob/maste...
  5. I've recently started using this Chrome Plugin to disable autoplay: https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay . So far works about 95% of the time, but it recently became unmaintained. It also does not distinguish between when you…
  6. …get that permission, but things like Youtube or other video sites (ahem) can get it easily. [1] https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay/