Disable YouTube Watch Later Autoplay icon

Disable YouTube Watch Later Autoplay

by jacamera

v1.0.6 Updated Jul 21, 2025 11.72KiB
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Description

This browser extension disables the Watch Later autoplay behavior when selecting a video from the Watch Later list. The YouTube Watch Later feature lets users save a video to watch at a later time. When selecting a video from the Watch Later list YouTube will then always autoplay every subsequent video from the list. This happens because YouTube treats the Watch Later list just like any other playlist and there is no way to disable autoplay when viewing videos in a playlist. Once installed, the extension works automatically. When you click on a video on the Watch Later list the extension will remove the playlist parameters from the video URL, allowing you to watch the video or copy the URL without the default autoplaying playlist behavior.
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Reviews (9 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-19
taylor

great idea, but its broken as the playlist still shows.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-01
Анатолий Веремьев

Not working! (((

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-24
Batuhan Kesler

It doesn't work anymore. It used to work as it should. When I click on a video from the Watch Later page it wouldn't go to the next video after the video ends. But now it doesn't work anymore. I'm using Vivaldi browser. I don't know if it works on Chrome normally but I don't have any problem on Vivaldi with any other extension.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-16
Anton Pavlov (Tony)

Unfortunately doesn't work. Videos are still opening with "&list=WL&index=" params.

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-02
Alexey Petrovich

It doesn't work, unfortunately. The latest version of macOS, the latest version of Chrome. I installed the plugin, but after the video ends, the next one automatically starts playing, meaning nothing has changed in the behavior of the default player.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-09
THGhost2013

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-05
Ava Nemanic

Don't have github so can't comment there, but simply does not work. Wish it did.

★★☆☆☆2025-03-04
DL17

This doesn't seem to work when opening a Watch Later video is opened to a new tab. I'm using latest Chrome on Windows 10.

★★★☆☆2024-03-31
Milbyte

sadly it does not work for me. its not removing the &list=WL from the URL. I use vivaldi though, so its barely a mainstream browser, even if it technically supports webstore extensions

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Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages

Details

Version 1.0.6
Updated Jul 21, 2025
Size 11.72KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026