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You've probably been criminal off baby-sit by videos that spectacle automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or nonbelligerent latitude the internet in general. They catalyze region as anon as you outgo a recto or (if they're supplemental deviously implemented) back you start scrolling through a page.

Automatic video spectacle is a fondness that, while nice to kumtux back it's surfacing cut-up that's simultaneous to your interests, can be pretty annoying. Autoplay videos can be harmful, too, exposing you to violent, offensive, or otherwise unwanted cut-up that you shouldn't kumtux to see by default.

Whether you nonbelligerent want to put an end to autoplay videos on social media platforms or are looking for a supplemental comprehensive fix, we've got some tips. Alimony in philosophizing that you'll need to marshal these settings for every device that you use, since your preferences on, say, your phone do not automatically push to your PC.

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Facebook

If you're utilizing Facebook on your browser, you can turn off autoplay videos this way:

• Go to the drop-down menu at the top seasonable of the page.
• Select "Settings & Privacy" > "Settings.".
• Look for the "Videos" playbill on the left-hand menu. Central of that plurality is a toggle area you can turn off autoplaying videos.

Facebook has similar options spouseless for its iOS and Android apps:

Using the iOS app

• Click the menu puny on the elemental of your screen.
• Once you're there, tap "Settings & Privacy," again "Settings."
• Scroll dropping until you gathering "Media and Contacts," again tap "Videos and Photos."
• Finally, already you gathering "Autoplay," you can turn off the feature.

Using the Android app

• Click the menu puny at the top seasonable of your screen.
• Once you're there, annal dropping and tap "Settings & Privacy," again "Settings."
• Scroll dropping until you gathering "Media and Contacts" and tap on it.
• Tap on "Autoplay" and set it to "Never Autoplay Videos."

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Twitter

• Click on "More" in the left-hand menu, and again on "Settings and privacy."
• Select "Data usage."
• Click on the "Autoplay" setting. You can again switch off the autoplaying of videos on your feed.

Using the iOS and Android apps

• Click the profile picture at the top of your phone screen.
• Select "Settings and privacy" in the menu.
• Navigate to "Data usage," tap on "Video autoplay" and set it to "Never."

Instagram

The Instagram app doesn't fertilize for autoplay videos to be turned off, accordingly you'll kumtux to footstep calculatingly here. Videos don't autoplay if you use Instagram on your browser, except since chancy all of the service's users are utilizing it on motile devices, there's currently no way effectually it.

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Reddit

Reddit, like picked sites that host video, autoplays videos by default. However, it's pretty easy to turn it off.

Using the newest diamond

• Click your username in the upper-right corner and select "User settings" in the menu.
• Select the "Feed settings" tab at the top of the page, and toggle off the "Autoplay media" switch.

Using the legacy version

• Click "Preferences" abutting to your username in the top seasonable of the window.
• Under "Media," attending for and uncheck "Autoplay Reddit videos on the desktop comments page."
• You'll need to hit "save options" at the elemental of the umbrella to put the changes through.

Using the motile app

• Tap the figure abutting to the smokeshaft bar, again hit "Settings."
• You'll see "Autoplay" present-day the top of the page, and you can hands co-opt to turn it off.

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Desktop browsers

There are a array of desktop browsers out there -- some of which let you turn off video autoplay and some of which don't.

Using Google Chrome

If you use Google Chrome and want to turn off video autoplay -- you can't. There acclimated to be an foreground command-line streamer that immune you to turn them off (you can gathering the flags by written chrome://flags/ into Chrome's birdcage field), except it's disappeared.

Using Microsoft Edge

Interestingly, Microsoft's Tiptoe browser, which is conjointly based on the Chromium open-source design, does let you turn off -- well, at least, loftiest -- video autoplay:

• Click on the three dots in the upper seasonable corner and select "Settings."
• In the left-hand column, click on "Site Permissions," and again annal dropping to and select "Media autoplay."

You can either fertilize audio and video to spectacle automatically or loftiest it. Equal to the instructions, whether autoplay will work or not will depend on "how you've visited the recto and whether you interacted with media in the past."

Using Firefox

Firefox has a similar fondness that lets you turn off autoplay, for the picked part.

• Click on the three lines in the upper seasonable corner of the browser and select "Preferences."
• In the left-hand column, click on "Privacy & Security."
• Scroll dropping to the territory headed "Permissions" and attending for "Autoplay." Click on the puny noticeable "Settings."

A drop-down menu will let you fertilize audio and video, chasing audio, or chasing audio and video. You can conjointly specify sites that you want to differ from your defaults -- for example, if you chasing audio and video as a default, except you want to fertilize it for, say, The Verge.

Using Safari

Safari makes it simple to disable autoplay. In fact, it assumes that you want the fondness disabled to catalyze with. However, if it hasn't been disabled -- or if you want to make some exceptions to the aphorism -- here's what you do:

• While in the app, go to Carnival > Preferences in the top menu.
• Click on "Websites" in the top menu.
• Look for and select "Auto-Play" in the synchronous menu.
• Look for the drop-down menu at the elemental seasonable of the window and select "Never Auto-Play."

As with Firefox, you can whitelist any sites that you want to be an noninclusion to the rule.

Update September 4th, 2020 5:11PM ET: This clause was originally published on March 15th, 2019. Picked of the entries kumtux been updated.