Consumption of the media (audio/video) must be greater than seven seconds.Chrome's approach is a ratio of visits to significant media playback events per origin: The Media Engagement Index (MEI) measures an individual's propensity to consume media on a site. Top frames can delegate autoplay permission to their iframes to allow autoplay with sound.The user has added the site to their home screen on mobile or installed the PWA on desktop.On desktop, the user's Media Engagement Index threshold has been crossed, meaning the user has previously played video with sound.The user has interacted with the domain (click, tap, etc.).These changes are intended to give greater control of playback to users and to benefit publishers with legitimate use cases. # New behaviorsĪs you may have noticed, web browsers are moving towards stricter autoplay policies in order to improve the user experience, minimize incentives to install ad blockers, and reduce data consumption on expensive and/or constrained networks. Internet memes tagged 'autoplay' found on Imgflip and Imgur.
