Intervention: Block audible cross-origin autoplay

This is an intervention that intends to block cross-origin iframes from autoplaying audible media. In other words, cross-origin iframes on desktop will behave like mobile currently behaves: only muted/inaudible autoplay will be allowed.

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Media

Behind a flag (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 57
• Opera release 44
• Opera for Android release 44

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: No signals

Owners

• zqzhang@chromium.org
• mlamouri@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14