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google-chromefrontendautoplay
Snookums
Snookums

Reputation: 1340

How do I bypass Chrome's Autoplay policy the same way as Youtube does?

I need to make a video autoplay with sound when visited via a deeplink.

According to https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/, it is not allowed, because the video is NOT muted.

However, if you open a Youtube video in a Guest Chrome tab (meaning Media Engagement Index is empty and doesn't matter here), it autoplays, and it has sound.

That means Youtube bypasses the Chrome policy, is that correct? I saw other websites do the same as well.

I am wondering how to do the same in my app. Could anyone teach me?

Note: the video in my app is from a 3rd party and is embedded in my app, that means the video's URL has a different domain from my app's. But I think it shouldn't matter.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 967

Answers (1)

Luckylooke
Luckylooke

Reputation: 4539

You can't bypass it unless you have connections in Google and get on the list, here is blog post where they admit that there is a whitelist of pages https://blog.google/products/chrome/improving-autoplay-chrome/, which is imho very unfair and discriminates competition. For those non-listed here are rules: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/

Upvotes: 1

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