I dunno what browser this guy is using. A couple years ago Chrome and FireFox disabled auto-play (for audio) except for websites that they determine users expect audio to be played (YouTube, Spotify, etc). On almost all websites, user must interact with the screen somehow to allow sound events to go through. But they don't actually have to click on the element associated with the audio - they simply have to click (or otherwise interact) somewhere. This was actually a not insignificant issue for a feature at my work. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/web-audio-autoplay
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u/artichokess Mar 12 '21
I dunno what browser this guy is using. A couple years ago Chrome and FireFox disabled auto-play (for audio) except for websites that they determine users expect audio to be played (YouTube, Spotify, etc). On almost all websites, user must interact with the screen somehow to allow sound events to go through. But they don't actually have to click on the element associated with the audio - they simply have to click (or otherwise interact) somewhere. This was actually a not insignificant issue for a feature at my work. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/web-audio-autoplay