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[bzbarsky]

Last I checked, Chrome blocks autoplay of videos with sound on websites. Except for YouTube, where they allow it.

If they were a monopoly, that would seem like a pretty clear abuse of market position.

[merb → bzbarsky]

that's not enterily true. on dailymotion videos also start with sound while the video is autoplayed.

As far as I know it has more todo with the visibility/size of the video.

Here is the ruling (I've written the above before: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...)

[bzbarsky → merb]

Various other sites can get added to the whitelist if their videos are big enough and the user plays them often enough. But YouTube starts out on the whitelist. It's possible that dailymotion does too. The BBC, doesn't seem to be on the whitelist, though.