Video Blocker for Chrome

While browsing the web, you come across good things and bad things  — the latter of which being best chalked as annoyances. For all the information at your fingertips, it can't be refuted that there are a few bad apples in this whole experience. Ads are one thing, and the popularity of ad-blocker tools exemplifies the people's desire to get rid of them.

What do we do about autoplaying videos, though? Anecdotally, very few people seem to be unbothered by them, whilst the majority find them undesirable. If autoplaying bothers you, then giving Video Blocker for Chrome a try will fix that for you at the press of a button.

This is a Google Chrome extension, and getting it to work on your browser doesn't involve anything out of the ordinary. Add it to your browser, toggle the option to stop videos from autoplaying in the extension, and that's that.

The extension will stop clips from autoplaying in their tracks, and navigating to YouTube proves that. What's more, the add-on works on pretty much any site that has autoplaying content: be it news, video-sharing, or social media websites, you needn't worry about some clip randomly playing anymore.

It's worth noting how videos look when the add-on takes effect: a static image is displayed, notifying the user that the clip was blocked by the extension, and that clicking the image will commence playback.

If you often browse a domain in which autoplaying videos do not bother you, you can whitelist it in the extension. This makes it so that the extension won't take effect there.

The add-on is pretty clear-cut, where all is self-explanatory: if you find autoplaying videos bothersome, Video Blocker can summarily address that.