Video and audio ads are everywhere when we surf the internet. They play themselves automatically when the page loads without our permission. It is annoying. If you do not want to see these autoplay video ads, you can turn off the video autoplay in your browser. Some web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome has the native capability to block autoplay ads. For example, you can refer to this tutorial to disable autoplay videos in Firefox on Windows 10 PC. We will show you how to disable autoplay video and audio in Google Chrome web browser in walkthrough below. As we mentioned above, Chrome allows users to stop autoplay ads without any plugins or extension, you just need to tweak some of its hidden settings in order to disable video autoplay.
How to stop autoplay video ads in Chrome for Windows?
We will use Chrome browser on a Windows 10 PC in this demo. If you use Chrome for Mac or a different version of Chrome, you may see it differs in appearance.
Launch Chrome browser on your PC. Type chrome://flags/ in its address bar and visit it, just like you type in a website URL and visit in Chrome browser. After that you will see a search flags box at the top of the page and a warning message follows.
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Type autoplay in the search box, you should find the Autoplay policy which is used when deciding if audio or video is allowed to autoplay. Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android. Click the drop-down menu to change its status from Default to Document user activation is required.
You will then be prompted to relaunch the Chrome browser so the changes will take effect. Click Relaunch Now button to restart the Google Chrome web browser on your PC.
Once Chrome relaunches, go to open any website that has autoplay video or audio to ensure these video or audio ads cannot play automatically like before.
If you like to web video and audio ads to play automatically again, simply change the status of Chrome autoplay policy back to the default.