how to stop bing from playing youtube videos in Edge Search windows 11

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Chuck Weyant 5

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Answer 1

Hi! You need change specific settings in MS edge. Please follow the steps and i'll guide you.

Step 1: Turn-off video auto-play

Open Microsoft edge
Click the three dots (⋯) in the top right > select settings
In the left panel, go to cookies and site permissions
Scroll down and click Media auto-play
Choose Limit(or block if available), as this blocks most videos from auto playing

Step 2: Use a different search engine in edge

Go to settings > privacy, search, and services
Scroll to address bar and search
Change search engine used in the address bar to something like: Google DuckDuckGo
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  Startpage
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This won’t autoplay videos in the same way Bing does.

Let me know once done so we can check the results.

Regards,

Iggy

Answer 2

_AW_ 70,241 Volunteer Moderator

There's no native way to do it, though it can be done with an extension that redirects to YouTube.

Unfortunately, with changes to YouTube there can be a delay before the redirect happens.

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Answer 3

_AW_ 70,241 Volunteer Moderator

There's another extension I have that does a far better job and is more reliable. This extension needs to sideloaded from a local folder on your PC.

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Answer 4

D G 0

Looks like another reason to not use Bing, it is truly awful and to be fair I am surprised the search engine even finds You Tube.

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