Description of the issue: Brave prevents autoplay of videos by default, which is an issue for sites that rely on video to convey information. Browsers tend to support image fallback when videos are not played, but Brave’s default blocking of video autoplay does not currently present the fallback im…

I view sites regularly that embed Twitter videos, and Brave is just not able to handle it at all in a proper user-friendly manner. It is sadly making Brave not usable for me.

as a user you should be able to click the button in the url bar to whitelist sites for autoplay. the problem is that a) most people probably don’t know they need to do this and b) there is no marker on the page to inform the user that this has happened.

Thank you, ura-soul, but even that does not work for me.

oh ok - what about that function doesn’t work for you?

thanks, but that does not resolve this issue

Handling image fallback for autoplay videos blocked by brave

Brave Browser Desktop Support

treego14 January 7, 2020, 9:55pm 6

Please see Embedded Twitter videos do not work/play on websites

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Handling image fallback for autoplay videos blocked by brave

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