Video Blocker

by Ben Plowman · Workflow & Planning

FeaturedManifest V3 Free

View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Block videos from playing.

Users

20K

0 in 30 days

Rating

3.0 / 5

−0.31 in 30 days

Ratings

181

+1 in 30 days

Store rank

#5,593

#4,791 among extensions

Version

1.2

updated 27 Oct 2022

Users

monthly, 3 years

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 20,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 181 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Video Blocker

Video Blocker stops annoying autoplay videos before they start. * Prevents all web videos from automatically playing on pages. * Allows you to whitelist specific domains like youtube.com where you want videos to play. * Allows you to enable a single video by clicking on the video directly. * If you find a video this extension is not currently blocking, I'd love to hear about it. Hit me up on twitter @benplowman. New in version 1.2 (October 2022): * Fixed a bug where several languages were poorly translated. * Migrated to the latest version of the Chrome Extensions framework (manifest v3) New in version 1.1: * Fixed a bug where some videos were no longer being blocked. New in version 1.0: * Reduce CPU usage in pages with lots of content updates. * Support for adding domains with multiple parts like "stan.com.au" to the allow list. Before you could only add the end of the domain, "com.au", to the allow list, which didn't make much sense. * Removed unused notifications permission.