How to prevent video autoplay in Chromium Edge

Anonymous
2020-01-18T12:12:20+00:00

Hi

I've upgraded to chromium edge but now videos are autoplaying again. I had this disabled on classic Edge but can't work out how to do this on the new version.

I've set "Media autoplay" to "Limit" in the "Site Permissions" section of settings but this doesn't seem to have had any effect at all (yes, I've restarted Edge / Windows).

I had also had this problem with dev / beta builds of Edge but hadn't got around to chasing it up until it became my primary browser.

In particular it's annoying on the MSN new pages linked to from the new tab page in Edge when they all have autoplaying video.

Thanks

Microsoft Edge | Audio and video playback | Windows 10

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Anonymous
2020-02-12T09:55:30+00:00

Why isn't there an option called "Block"?

You'll probably find that the block option has to be enabled. Copy the next line into the address bar and press Enter:

edge://flags/#edge-autoplay-user-setting-block-option

Once this flag is enabled, you should see Block on the autoplay options menu.

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Anonymous
2020-05-22T12:58:37+00:00

Hi MichalTadeas and thanks for reaching out. My name is Joseph. I'm an independent advisor. I'll be happy to help you out today.

I would suggest you refer to the below steps and check if it helps to resolve the issue.

  1. Open Microsoft Edge.
  2. Copy edge://flags/ and paste it to the browser's address bar.
  3. Type 'Show block option in autoplay settings' and set it to 'Enable'.
  4. Copy edge://settings/profiles and paste it to the browser's address bar.
  5. Type 'Media autoplay' click it.
  6. Set it to 'Block'.
  7. Restart your computer, and when it boots up, check to see whether or not the problem has been resolved.

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let me know how it goes.

Thank you!

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2020-02-12T07:27:12+00:00

Hi Ash,
I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 3 year Windows Insider MVP here to help.

In the new Microsoft Edge, the option of automatic playback is limited.

However, you can install an extension like autoplayblocker from the Chrome web store to disable Autoplay. (You may have to enable extensions from other store).

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-11T16:04:16+00:00

    I'm taking RonMDM's suggestion and now using Firefox. Edge is a pretty good browser, but I'm exasperated by Microsoft developer's inability to fix this obvious bug.... or worse forcing this BS browser behavior on its users.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-11T15:45:36+00:00

    Joseph's suggestion does not work.  The only way that I've been able to stop videos from playing automatically is to disable javascript for the site. This has some side effects that you may not like, but it at least stopped the videos from auto playing.  Microsoft & Google should really fix this obnoxious behavior.

    You are correct Russ. Customers have been mislead on this subject from the beginning. Even worse, people's time has been wasted dealing with this simple issue.

    Here is a quote from the Microsoft Edge Insider site:

    Hi, we’re the Microsoft Edge Team. We’ve created this space to give us the ability to more easily talk with you, share our progress, answer questions, and take your feedback. This site will be updated regularly with articles and discussions published by our own engineering team, but we will also be here every day participating in discussions that you kick off about things that are important to you. We want to learn from you and ultimately build a great product, so don’t be shy. We’re here and we’re ready to hear your big ideas!

     Microsoft should start treating customers/users with respect. You can start by fixing this issue, Block means Block.

    It’s strange. The pre-release of Edge provided a working Block. The feature was removed in a final release. Can you give us an explanation why the Block feature was removed Microsoft?

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