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wodenokoto
11 months ago
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Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto pl...
Doesn’t YouTube technically autoplay? You click a link, change page and url and a video starts playing
EduardoBautista
11 months ago
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Video autoplay is usually allowed on a whitelist of URLs determined by the browser vendor, if I recall correctly.
YouTube is always on those whitelists.
curtisblaine
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I can't try it at the moment, but I'm not sure the page is actually reloaded. I suspect YouTube is an SPA and, when you click, the url change event is captured by a router and the content of the page is merely replaced.
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