I have autoplay turned off in settings, and have even gone as far as specifically adding youtube.com to the block list. However, whenever I open a YouTube link, the video plays immediately on page load, which is not what I want.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Turn off autoplay in Site Settings.
Navigate to any Youtube video.
Video will play (grumble)
Expected result: Video does not play until I click on the play button
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 0.68.132 Chromium: 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)
@qxq8d4on,
Thanks for reaching out to us.
Can you try clearing cache/site data and resetting permissions on Youtube to see if this helps resolve the issue at all?
Scroll down the list of permissions and find Autoplay, set this to Block
There’s a chance you may encounter a small bug here where you click Block in the dropdown, but Allow is still displayed. Ensure that you have clicked Block even if Allow is displayed afterwards.
Make sure you refresh the page when prompted.
Let me know if this works for you – when testing this issue, I myself realized that Autoplay wasn’t getting blocked (will have to dig into this further) and these are the exact steps I took to get it to work.
OK, I’m getting the same thing as the OP in same version of Brave and macOS. I tried your suggestion, and the setting will not change from Allow. When I select Block or Block (Default), it just goes back to Allow.
Also, before I tried that, I tried going to the setting directly, and when I turn the toggle to “Blocked” in the detail setting, the list of site settings still says “Ask,” but it doesn’t even ask with either toggle.
HOWEVER, it doesn’t appear to work in Nightly (0.71.68 Chromium: 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)). When I get more time, I’ll tinker more.
Just came here to note that this is actually a known issue that we’re addressing. Issue can be tracked here:
I added a few notes of my own from when I’d encountered this problem previously. Also, @hnktong, your report/testing was so useful I went ahead and quoted you directly in the issue to help solidify the case for the issue – I hope you don’t mind!