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description for autoplay blocking in settings page
Official Explanation:
You can choose from two options which restrict whether video and audio can play automatically. If you choose Limit, media will autoplay based on how you’ve used media on that site in the past. If you choose Block, all sites will be blocked from playing media automatically.
source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Top-feedback-summary-for-September-24/m-p/873008
HotCakeX, what happened to block for media autoplay? Can anyone from Microsoft explain why block has gone away as the choices are now allow and limit. I'd love to see block be there as I'd set and recommend that be set for people. It is so annoying to land on a page and have a video auto-start.
Jeffrey Allen wrote:HotCakeX, what happened to block for media autoplay? Can anyone from Microsoft explain why block has gone away as the choices are now allow and limit. I'd love to see block be there as I'd set and recommend that be set for people. It is so annoying to land on a page and have a video auto-start.
Hi, it's not gone, it's just behind a flag.
this happened 3 or 4 months ago..
you can bring it back by going to: edge://flags/
and enable this flag:
Show block option in autoplay settings
If enabled, block will appear as an option in media autoplay settings. – Mac, Windows
HotCakeX, thanks I had it before and it went away. I did just test on two pages and the videos are still auto playing even with block chosen.
- Yes it's still experimental hence they put under the flags 🙂
the only way I found so far that it works is by manually pasting a page with video in Edge.
so for example, copy a YouTube video URL, close/reopen Edge and paste it into the address bar, the video should be blocked from auto playing, at least that's what I'm experiencing on Edge canary
Adding Elliot Kirk, josh_bodner, and David Rubino to this conversation as I'm curious to know why block vanished?!