[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 259577] [GTK] [GStreamer] Youtube videos bypass the autoplay "only without sound" setting, even when opened in new tabs / pages

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259577

Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #1)
> What is this default "Media autoplay: Without sound" state you're talking
> about?

WEBKIT_AUTOPLAY_ALLOW_WITHOUT_SOUND, corresponding to the "Media autoplay" permission in Epiphany's security popover

(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #2)
> When reporting bugs here, please check with MiniBrowser.

Even I do not do this. :P MiniBrowser is awkward to use and it's really rare for a web content bug to turn out to be somehow caused by Epiphany.

That said, in this case it *might* be true, because I can reproduce this in Epiphany but not in MiniBrowser. MiniBrowser always uses WEBKIT_AUTOPLAY_ALLOW_WITHOUT_SOUND unless you pass a special command line flag. It does this by creating a WebKitWebsitePolicies and then using it to create each WebKitWebView. Epiphany does something completely different: it uses the default WebKitWebsitePolicies when creating the view, then applies a new set of policies for each navigation policy decision using webkit_policy_decision_use_with_policies(). Epiphany cannot follow the MiniBrowser approach because it allows the autoplay policy to be different for every website and so needs to apply new policies to every load. Still, I think it's *probably* a WebKit bug for the policies to not be applied successfully, so this is the best place for the bug report until we've dived in further.

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