This happened to Flash in IE I think about 10 years ago. Every flash animation on the page had a some form of 'click to play' cta. I find that pages that have

This happened to Flash in IE I think about 10 years ago. Every flash animation on the page had a some form of 'click to play' cta. I find that pages that have sound more annoying than video, but isn't a major problem for me as I have headphones plugged in permanently. I think I would prefer such a feature request as a user option, like a permission request. This is how popup windows, full screen, taking control of the cursor behaves. I do worry about the data usage on mobile though with autoplaying videos. Even pausing them doesn't stop it from fetching more in the buffer. I suspect there may be some valid use cases for autoplaying (such as background looping videos, YouTube, etc), particularly when run in some type of kiosk mode on a TV. It's another example of where some spoil the experience and the behaviour of the web ends up getting locked down to stop them.