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by apatters 2963 days ago
> One cool way to engage users is about using muted autoplay and let them chose to unmute (see code snippet below).

This line really illustrates how poorly Google understands the role of the browser. The browser's job isn't to help developers "engage" users, which just means getting them to spend more of their time on the site. Why would any user install a browser which is optimized to consume as much of their time as possible? The browser's job is to protect me from abusive publishers, not enable more abuse.