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I agree that doing away with the autoplay attribute on the video tag is probably not the right thing to do. It definitely has use cases. However, I think it is

by CoryG89 10y ago

I agree that doing away with the autoplay attribute on the video tag is probably not the right thing to do. It definitely has use cases. However, I think it is completely reasonable to allow users to configure their browsers to not allow this behavior if they so desire. This may exist in some form in some browsers already, but it's definitely not accessible to the average user.

foobarchu 10y ago
I think the ideal solution, for me at least, would be to treat autoplay the same way browsers treat the location API. When a website tries to use it, present a little notification that asks if it's alright. If a user is clearly visiting a video-centric website (youtube, vimeo, etc), they will probably click 'yes' to let that website autoplay in the future. The possible downside is that some users may not "understand" it, and get upset at the website for not autoplaying like they expect it to. The core of the issue is that autoplay was on by default in the first place. Turning it off cannot be clean, no matter how it's done.