There seems to be some confusion, so I've created a quick flowchart to show when it's appropriate to autoplay videospic.twitter.com/n4n6Yp2RJT
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Personally I'm okay with that for something like YouTube, but it would be nice if it were configurable.
Many don’t want it to immediately start downloading & playing a video at whatever bitrate it randomly selects
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