I still find it distasteful that Chrome's autoplay policy was "we allowlist a 'fair' list of popular websites that happens to include all of our big domains", w

I still find it distasteful that Chrome's autoplay policy was "we allowlist a 'fair' list of popular websites that happens to include all of our big domains", when the UX for that isn't meaningfully better than the way it works in Firefox. I can't imagine it actually had much of a positive impact on Google's metrics either, so it felt like a huge waste of effort + additional complexity for nothing. I wonder if the Firefox team ever considered taking the same approach to make Youtube "just work". Clicking allow the first time and never thinking about it again is pretty easy.