My hot take for a while has been that trusted events are bad UX design. Highlighting text on a page can be treated as a trusted event to trigger things like aud

My hot take for a while has been that trusted events are bad UX design. Highlighting text on a page can be treated as a trusted event to trigger things like audio autoplay. It's a tricky problem to solve, and I guess it's technically better than nothing, but we really should be focusing on surfacing these permissions in a more user-understandable way. There's friction there -- we want to be able to go to Youtube and click a single button and have a video play. But stuff like video autoplay does not make sense to hide behind a user click that can be anywhere on the page or a keypress that can be basically anything at all. It's too easy of a bar to cross imo; it breaks certain applications and makes them less reliable, but also makes it far too easy to just have a popup banner with an X, and poof, now you have all the permissions you need.