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by kypro 968 days ago
I think this might be related to autoplay. A video can only auto play if it's muted and I think in some cases browsers require you also interact with the video to play it so they might be forcing a click to get to the progress bar or something.
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Yeah, sounds right. But Facebook could still show progress bars for videos on all of their pages.