How to Turn Off YouTube Auto-Play Next Video
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
YouTube has an autoplay toggle on the player, but it's easy to find it back on, for example after clearing cookies or in another browser. Ultimate Adblocker's "Turn off autoplay" switch, in its YouTube settings, turns YouTube's autoplay off whenever you open a video, so the next video doesn't start on its own. Playlists you open on purpose still play in order, and "Hide end-screen suggestions" removes the tiles that appear at the end.
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