{"id":447,"date":"2021-09-30T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2021-09-14T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T10:17:04","slug":"how-can-i-block-twitter-from-auto-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/how-can-i-block-twitter-from-auto-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I block Twitter from auto-playing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Twitter, users share a lot of automatically triggered GIFs and videos; automatic triggering is not a bad thing in principle, as it makes you jump to the content faster, but if there is a lot of animation, it can be distracting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter has therefore made it possible to disable autoplay. The option can be found under Settings | Privacy | Utilities | Autoplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t want videos to start automatically, this option should be set to Never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter, users share a lot of automatically triggered GIFs and videos; automatic triggering is not a bad thing in principle, as it makes you jump to the content faster, but if there is a lot of animation, it can be distracting. Twitter has therefore made it possible to disable autoplay. The option can be &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How can I block Twitter from auto-playing?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/how-can-i-block-twitter-from-auto-playing\/#more-447\" aria-label=\"Read more about How can I block Twitter from auto-playing?\">Read more \u2771<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[374,371,372,94,373],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-animation","tag-auto-playing","tag-gif","tag-twitter","tag-video","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}