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How to disable automatic video playback on web pages？
What should I do to get the edge browser to disable CNN's web page from automatically playing video? I hate video news so much, not only is it very traffic consuming, but it's destructive to the news reading experience.
In addition, there is no option for autoplaying videos inside EDGE://flags, which is odd since chrome provides the relevant option inside chrome://flags.
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Unless I am missing something, this feature was moved to require a flag that is still present in the Stable channel, but was removed in more recent builds. It is not present in my Canary or Dev channel installations.See this post from April 23:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/so-many-removed-flags-in-edge-canary-version-84-0-494-0/m-p/1333069It also appears in the Top Feedback post as Planned, with no date in the May 28 post:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/top-feedback-summary-for-may-28/m-p/1424603 with a snip for the entry showing "on this list" for 40 weeks at that timeI hope I am missing something, but look forward this feature coming back in the future.
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Disallowing a block on video is just bush league. This has to change (just too annoying) or I will be forced to end my time with Edge.
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The good news is that this should be an easy setting change. We addressed this on our https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/whats-new page a little while ago, so you should be able to follow the steps below:
Hopefully this addresses your question. If not, just let us know and we'd be happy to look into this further.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeletedUnfortunately they took this feature out of the most current release of Edge. 😞
Deleted There is no such option of Block in autoplay. Also, there is no flag to enable it. Something is wrong with this canary build. Many flags are missing like streaming only one media at a time, global media controls work but the video selection pane doesn't appear anymore while playing videos, native notifications option is missing.
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