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by stonewareslord 1353 days ago
Is it not this way in chrome too? I know imgur messes with the ui for no good reason.

Your other commentmentions i.imgur.com being the case? Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?

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> Is it not this way in chrome too?

Afraid not. In Chrome and Safari the controls reappear in step 3. In Firefox step 4 is required.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was an imgur thing but I have seen it in non-imgur embeds on reddit.

> Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?

That could work. Thank you!

It's an imgur thing. It disables controls on every interaction with the video by doing `.controls = false` on the video element.

Chrome seems to ignore this attribute being set to false and continue to show controls anyway, which appears to be a spec violation from my reading of it. Of course it ends up being a desirable behavior in this case.