I've tried AdBlock Plus based on Sanny's suggestion but haven't yet found a way to make it do what I want.įirst of all, what you ask may not completely be achieved as you please. I want something that works like disabling images, but for videos (and I'd like to be able to keep images). It seems odd that there's apparently no simple option to block video, given that Chromes's "Content settings" has a simple, easy option to block images:
I've seen How to block HTML5 videos system wide but unfortunately the answer only addresses Firefox and IE. To be clear, I want to stop the videos being streamed/loaded as well as stopping auto-play.
Disable HTML5 Autoplay sounds promising, but doesn't work as expected.The promisingly-named Video Blocker actually only removes specified Youtube channels and suggested videos on the Youtube page.I thought there would be an extension for this, but it seems there isn't: Maybe a "click to load video" button would be a nice feature, but it's not necessary. What I want is, a way such that any time Chrome sees a or, it just shows something like a grey box and doesn't even touch the linked video content.
Is there any way I can prevent videos from loading at all in Chrome? I've already blocked Flash using Chrome's Content Settings for "Plug-ins". There's almost always no way to stop the video downloading other than closing the page. AirBnB and Lastminute).Īs well as the annoyance factor, these are a problem for me because I'm usually on a metered connection, and these things can waste hundreds of valuable MBs in seconds, on something I didn't even want to watch in the first place. Many sites now have auto-playing or automatically streaming videos: embedded in news pages, down side bars promoting other content, and some sites even have massive honking-great purely decorative videos in the background of a search page (e.g.