The moment Chrome is closed and reopened, it will revert back to the “selective autoplay”. Sadly, the above setting will not “stick”. Chrome should fire up and look “normal as usual”, but all HTML video and audio now requires the user to manually play. Hit Start + R, enter chrome -autoplay-policy=user-gesture-required into the run dialog box, then just hit OK. Mac and Linux users, the steps should be pretty much similar too. All right, for this first method, we will change the autoplay policy in Google Chrome to disallow videos and audio from autostarting.įor you guys who are on Windows, here is how we can change the autoplay policy from the command prompt.
