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Reputation: 4879

Chrome: How to simulate new AutoPlay policy

In Google Chrome 66, autoplay policy changed.

You can read about it here:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes

As a developer, I need to develop workarounds.

Of course, the first step to developing for this scenario is being able to reliably reproduce the scenario where:

Here's my issue.

Os X, Chrome 67.0.3396.99

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Disable MEI detection and autoplay using ALL of the Developer Switches

This means:

a) Visit chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy and change the behavior to Document user activation is required and restart Chrome. b) Run Chrome using: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-features=PreloadMediaEngagementData,AutoplayIgnoreWebAudio,MediaEngagementBypassAutoplayPolicies

  1. Visit a site that should allow autoplay, i.e YouTube.com

Expected Result:

Autoplay doesn't engage.

Actual Result:

It does.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2475

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 4879

It turns out that

  • Step (a) appears to be unnecessary.

  • When running step (b) make sure that you close Chrome entirely first. If you get the message "Created new window in existing browser session", you are in trouble.

To reiterate:

Steps To Reproduce:

1) Quit Chrome entirely.

2) Run Chrome using: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-features=PreloadMediaEngagementData,AutoplayIgnoreWebAudio,MediaEngagementBypassAutoplayPolicies

3) Visit YouTube.com

Result:

Video starts paused.

I've found, additionally, that my videos will still autoplay unless I click the address bar and click "enter", rather than refreshing the page.

Upvotes: 1

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