[hollisbrown]

Thank you very much for pointing this out, if a play button can be a fallback for those users only I'll put it in there.

I'm a bit weirded out by this being the default even for muted videos. Does that somehow save bandwith because you only get sent one frame of the video? Because otherwise a muted video is just a series of images, and they dont block images by default, right?

[sjagoe]

I turn off autoplay globally because it's been abused for so long by some news sites, for example, that autoplay a video and then pin it to follow you as you scroll the article.

I find any autoplay, even muted or no audio, to be more of a distraction then helpful in general.

That said, I'm happy to make exceptions for well designed and intentioned sites, and so have allowed it on yours.

[akovaski]

In case anybody is wondering, Firefox doesn't block muted videos by default. The above poster had changed their settings to block muted video, which can be overridden per site.