TidBITS:
There is little more surprising—or even alarming—than having audio start blasting from your speakers while something starts moving before your eyes. It triggers all sorts of fight-or-flight reactions buried deep in our brainstems, wakes the kids, and scares the pets.
I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!
Is there anyone outside of advertisers and corporations that actually wants video or audio to autoplay?
Yes, Youtube. And they even insist to enable auto read random video after the one you are viewing. That said, Youtube may be categorised as an advertising corp…
MAY? 🙂
am I missing something? Safari blocks autoplay by default, one of the many reasons I use it as my main browser
Sound effects in HTML5 games?
I think it is reasonable, or at least a reasonable argument can be made, that when you click from YouTube’s search to the actual video’s page that autoplay is appropriate to save a step by the user.