I’ve noticed recently when I select a video, it starts to play automatically.

This never used to happen until about a month ago, Is there any way to stop this?
It doesn’t matter if I’m logged in or not, plus I can’t see any settings for this when I am logged in.

How do I stop utube videos from starting automatically?

firefox has an add on to stop this.. chrome probably does too – if anyone even uses chrome anymore -

Aquila said:

I’ve noticed recently when I select a video, it starts to play automatically.

This never used to happen until about a month ago, Is there any way to stop this?
It doesn’t matter if I’m logged in or not, plus I can’t see any settings for this when I am logged in.

How do I stop utube videos from starting automatically?

In your computer settings isn’t it? Autoplay or somesuch?

a number of different methods here

all for firefox sorry

Hmm, thanks, I’m using Chrome as have been for at least 18mnths.
It never used to do this with Chrome and only started happening recently, so maybe it is something to do with one of the Chrome updates which also happen automatically.

It’s annoying, this utube autoplay

I already changed this setting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUbpu0eOVfY

and it worked for a while but now it doesn’t

Aquila said:

I already changed this setting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUbpu0eOVfY

and it worked for a while but now it doesn’t

It may not be your browser’s fault – YouTube make minor changes to their interface quite frequently, primarily to discourage people from downloading videos. When those changes happen browsers also need to be updated. Of course, the people who write YouTube downloaders soon update their software, too, so it’s all a bit silly.

FWIW, I often use a Python program youtube-dl to download YouTube clips (and some other videos) via the command line. It has a simple option to update itself and it tends to be pretty good at keeping up with YouTube changes.

Thanks PM,

Aquila said:

Hmm, thanks, I’m using Chrome as have been for at least 18mnths.
It never used to do this with Chrome and only started happening recently, so maybe it is something to do with one of the Chrome updates which also happen automatically.

It’s annoying, this utube autoplay

I don’t find it annoying on youtube. I find it annoying when I look up a website and an unrelated advertisement video automatically starts – darn annoying, especially at times when my ISP deems that I only have “dialup” speed.

There’s a button on the right hand side above the “next videos” that you click to stop automatic playing.