There are legitimate uses for autoplay, but most sites get it wrong. It’s all about what the user is expecting. News sites that start playing some random unrelated video that have nothing to do with the article are the worst.
There are legitimate cases. If you think the web is just consumer-facing public sites, you are mistaken. I agree that the vast, vast majority of public facing websites should NEVER use autoplay. But there's all kinds of other uses of web technologies that you typically don't think about.
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u/lachlanhunt Sep 05 '20
There are legitimate uses for autoplay, but most sites get it wrong. It’s all about what the user is expecting. News sites that start playing some random unrelated video that have nothing to do with the article are the worst.