/stop-video-download

A button to stop YouTube videos from getting loaded.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

##Introduction Stop Video Download For YouTube is a chrome extension that adds a stop video button next to the subscribe button in YouTube. Clicking on the stop video button stops the video from getting downloaded onto your computer. It does not work for HTML5 videos, however.

##Installation You can get it from Chrome Webstore. Users using Mozilla, Opera or other browsers can make use of this Userscript.

##Why is it needed? Read my blog post.

##Changelog 1.3 (9/27/2014) : removed return statement that was causing error on newer versions of Chrome. 1.2 (1/27/2014) : made it support Youtube 'red bar' feature (SPF). added a space before the button. 1.1 (08/18/2013) : removed pauseVideo option. 1.0 (07/21/2013) : created.