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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by geofft on Sunday October 18, 2020 @01:38PM (#24819607)
I'm talking specifically about Chrome. There's no web standard that says what a browser must do about autoplay requests, and Chrome permits a large number of sites to autoplay with sound on.

Web browsers are also capable of determining that autoplay on technically-not-load-but-automatic counts as autoplay. (There's even text in the spec about it.) In particular, they can tell whether it is in response to a user action/gesture on the site or not.

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by speedgoose on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:11PM (#24820730)
Chrome has some special logic about autoplay. The following page describes them, but I feel like it's a bit more complicated in more recent versions of Chrome.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

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