The user should be able to make the client do whatever they want, but a blacklist for autoplay sounds a lot better to me than a whitelist. It harms the creative

The user should be able to make the client do whatever they want, but a blacklist for autoplay sounds a lot better to me than a whitelist. It harms the creative potential of things when they're limited by default and most users aren't going to manually add your site to a whitelist. It wouldn't even be so bad if the website could just request autoplay permissions the same as it requests permission to know your location etc. Better would be if the browser heuristically detected the site potentially abusing autoplay and then asked the user if they want to block the site from doing so in the future - at least giving webpages a chance by default instead of being guilty until proven innocent. As a web user I've never been so bothered by autoplaying news videos etc. that I felt it would be fair to stick a wrench in the entire web over them. On the subject of Reddit I do find it unnecessarily burdensome that I have to give Reddit Enhancement Suite permission for every individual domain that it wants to embed stuff from, another place where I feel like browsers went too far locking themselves down.