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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon rthaut

Autoplay doesn't work

Open camm9909 opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Browser: Brave

Even without adblock/other extensions which modify URL, autoplay is not a feature in the popout player. Not sure if this is a limitation of YouTube or the popout addon.

camm9909 avatar Dec 01 '21 13:12 camm9909

Unfortunately, it looks like there isn't really anything that can be done about this.

The extension is correctly passing the "autoplay" parameter to the embedded video player, but the browsers are blocking it: Autoplay is only allowed when approved by the user, the site is activated by the user, or media is muted.

Additionally, trying to force the video in the popout player to play automatically is also blocked with that same error.

The autoplay functionality seems to work sometimes (but not always) in Chrome, I think Chrome treats the opening of the popout player as part of a user interaction, but that may change in the future.

rthaut avatar Apr 21 '22 23:04 rthaut