# Stop HTML5 video from autoloading
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 3, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360 "2017-04-03T10:03:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@SimeonGriggs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimeonGriggs)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360/1 "2017-04-03T10:03:27Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Twitter (and Dailymotion) video onebox autoplays without user interaction](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-and-dailymotion-video-onebox-autoplays-without-user-interaction/56926/22):
Pasting a URL directly to a video creates an embedded HTML5 video, which depending on the browser, may start autoloading. I personally don’t think that’s ideal, so not sure this is a bug or feature. But wanted to start the discussion.
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> We could add preload=“metadata” so that only the video metadata is loaded until the video is clicked.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360/2 "2017-04-03T15:57:10Z")
Autoloading is not a problem. Why would that be a problem? It is not playing. The browser should have agency to make this call.
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### Author:  [@SimeonGriggs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimeonGriggs)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360/3 "2017-04-03T16:23:15Z")
If I open a YouTube video I’d expect it to start loading data because I wanted to watch a video.
If I open a forum thread I don’t want it to start loading a video, I might not even know there is one. It’s a waste of bandwidth/data use.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-html5-video-from-autoloading/60360/4 "2017-04-03T16:59:28Z")
Take it up with the browser people, not us.. typically only the cover image
is loaded use your f12 browser tools to verify this.