{"id":794,"date":"2015-01-24T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/?p=794"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:19:48","slug":"how-to-stop-youtube-videos-automatically-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/browser-extension\/how-to-stop-youtube-videos-automatically-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop YouTube Videos from Automatically Playing in 3 easy steps?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><div><div><a href=\"#introduction\">Introduction<\/a><\/div><div><a href=\"#stop-automatically-playing\">Stop Automatically Playing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"introduction\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"rank-math-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turn Off the Lights<\/a> v3.1 and higher, there is a new amazing feature to stop automatically playing the <a aria-label=\"YouTube (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"rank-math-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/turnoffthelights?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> and HTML5 videos on that web page. So if you open a YouTube video (or an HTML5 video on that web page) in a new tab, it doesn&#8217;t continue to\u00a0play. So\u00a0it stops directly with\u00a0automatically playing the video. When you open this new tab, you will see that the video is on pause. And you can easily play the video with a click on the play button of that video player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-1024x496.png\" alt=\"Stop Automatically Playing HTML5 video enabled thanks to the Turn Off the Lights browser extension\" class=\"wp-image-3541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-1536x745.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-2048x993.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-60x29.png 60w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/stop-automatically-playing-html-video-with-turn-off-the-lights-browser-extension-150x73.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stop Automatically Playing HTML5 video enabled thanks to the Turn Off the Lights browser extension<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"stop-automatically-playing\">Stop Automatically Playing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is great for stopping the\u00a0distraction and annoying sound in the background when you are searching for a product or an answer online.\u00a0To have this AutoStop feature enabled, go to the Turn Off the Lights options page. Follow the instructions steps below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click right on the gray lamp button in your web browser toolbar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Options<\/strong> from the context menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Turn Off the Lights options page will open in a new tab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the first <strong>Basic<\/strong> tab, search for the topic <strong>AutoStop<\/strong>. And enable the checkbox to enable this feature<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to stop YouTube Videos from Automatically Playing in your Google Chrome\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fqIhVpdyM2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How to enable AutoStop feature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction In Turn Off the Lights v3.1 and higher, there is a new amazing feature to stop automatically playing the YouTube and HTML5 videos on that web page. So if you open a YouTube video (or an HTML5 video on that web page) in a new tab, it doesn&#8217;t continue to\u00a0play. 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