What is Video Blocker?

Video Blocker is a Chrome extension developed by Ben Plowman, and its main feature is "Block videos from playing.".

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Download Video Blocker Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

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.

Extension Basic Information

Name	Video Blocker
ID	kkgpdmegkhdheglikjleejknplhdpbck
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-blocker/kkgpdmegkhdheglikjleejknplhdpbck
Description	Block videos from playing.
File Size	1.93 MB
Installation Count	15,238
Current Version	1.2
Last Updated	2022-10-27
Publish Date	2020-02-06
Rating	3.53/5 Total 120 Ratings
Developer	Ben Plowman
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://twitter.com/benplowman
Help Page URL	https://twitter.com/benplowman
Supported Languages	id,ms,de,en,fil,fr,sw,nl,no,vi,tr,ca,da,et,es,hr,it,lv,lt,hu,pl,pt-BR,pt-PT,ro,sk,sl,fi,sv,cs,el,sr,bg,ru,uk,iw,fa,mr,hi,bn,gu,ta,te,kn-IN,ml,th,am-ET,ar,zh-CN,zh-TW,ja,ko
manifest.json
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