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Autoplay is not blocked

See original GitHub issue

Follow up to: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3751

By default we block autoplay. Autoplay is no longer consistently blocked.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Clean profile
  2. Go to https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/cnt8no/best_cops_ever/
  3. Block notifications and accepts cookies
  4. Scroll down the page
  5. Reload the page 5 times

5605

Actual result:

The Blocked media indicator in URL bar is shown The video is played image

Expected result:

The Blocked media indicator in URL bar is shown The video is not played

image

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Reproducible on

Brave 0.68.121 Chromium: 76.0.3809.100 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision ed9d447d30203dc5069e540f05079e493fc1c132-refs/branch-heads/3809@{#990}
OS Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601.24494)
Brave 0.70.49 Chromium: 76.0.3809.100 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
Revision ed9d447d30203dc5069e540f05079e493fc1c132-refs/branch-heads/3809@{#990}
OS Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601.24494)

Not reproducible on

Brave 0.67.124 Chromium: 76.0.3809.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision ed9d447d30203dc5069e540f05079e493fc1c132-refs/branch-heads/3809@{#990}
OS Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601.24494)

cc @brave/legacy_qa @simonhong @rebron

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Reactions:6
  • Comments:31 (2 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

5reactions
scottstenslandcommented, Feb 22, 2020

Please fix this issue … is the only working solution to just use firefox where it correctly disables AutoPlay ?

3reactions
markuszellercommented, Sep 23, 2020

Autoplay is on status blocked on site info, but it is still not blocking - especially on Youtube.com. This is very annoying when having multiple Youtube Tabs open together.

Windows 10 20H2 OS Build 19042.508 Version 1.14.84 Chromium: 85.0.4183.121 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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