Video Blocker

Name: Video Blocker
Rating: 3.32 (175 reviews)
Author: Ben Plowman

Block videos from playing.

As of May 2026, Video Blocker has 20,000 users and a 3.32/5 rating from 175 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

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Chrome Web Store ↗.crx

Users+100.0%

20.0K

20,000

Rating−0.9%

3.32

175 reviews

Reviews+1.7%

175

Version

1.2

Manifest V3

90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension gained 10.0K users.

History

3 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 1, 2026	10.0K	3.35	172	1.2
May 1, 2026	20.0K	3.34	173	1.2
May 29, 2026	20.0K	3.33	174	1.2
Now	20.0K	3.32	175	1.2

Permissions & access

Permissions: tabsactiveTabstorage
Host access: None declared

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About

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.