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Intervention: Block audible cross-origin autoplay

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome 57)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This is an intervention that intends to block cross-origin iframes from autoplaying audible media. In other words, cross-origin iframes on desktop will behave like mobile currently behaves: only muted/inaudible autoplay will be allowed.

Standards & signals

• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/672086

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