Well, we did (on mobile), but you might not have noticed because sites used exotic workarounds (ffmpeg via enscripten + canvas)
This was much, much worse; terrible battery and bandwidth costs. So now we allow autoplaying *muted* video.
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This was much, much worse; terrible battery and bandwidth costs. So now we allow autoplaying *muted* video.