My understanding from a thread a couple of days ago is that are workarounds to that on some platforms. One that was mentioned was turning the videos into anima

My understanding from a thread a couple of days ago is that are workarounds to that on some platforms. One that was mentioned was turning the videos into animated GIFs, which can autoplay on Chrome and require a special setting on Firefox. It's one of the many wars on the web; websites want to push content, users don't want to be annoyed.