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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by sodality2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:58AM (#27105490)
That's enabled by default, on all major browsers, I'm fairly certain. Unless you click or have autoplayed in the past from that site it's a policy to not allow autoplaying video/audio unless the video is muted (<video> tag specifically)
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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by marcus_holmes on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:15AM (#27106175)
As far as I'm aware I've never allowed anything to autoplay video. If a site has video on it then I immediately try to mute/stop it (hence my frustration with this site where there doesn't appear to be any way of stopping the video. I ended up closing the tab).
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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by sodality2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:23AM (#27106252)
I'd suspect you clicked on something and they have `onclick=play()` or something.
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