[thrownaway954]

It might be just me, but I cannot (for the life me) understand what the issue is here. Maybe it's because I'm not a mobile game developer or content creator where audio and video is my life.

I think people like me would benefit with an actual side-by-side demonstration of what the issue is now vs the resolution the author is proposing.

[catbird]

This new Chrome "feature" mutes audio from many browser games and interactive audiovisual websites, offering no indication that audio is muted, and no way for the user to restore the audio.

By trying to silence autoplaying video ads, they have thrown the baby out with the bathwater (except for certain specially whitelisted domains, like youtube).