AutoPlay blocking feature breaks Play button on Vimeo videos 👀

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⭐️ Brave browser with AutoPlay disabled cannot play videos on its own Vimeo channel.

This bug has been ignored since 2019, see related Github issues here:

#18369
#34784

To reproduce, locate a Vimeo video with your favorite search engine using the search criteria "player.vimeo.com/video" or try this example.

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Wrongfully-closed Brave Community topics:

https://community.brave.com/t/vimeo-videos-stop-playing-randomly/73872

https://community.brave.com/t/brave-mobile-wont-play-vimeo-embedded-video/101524

https://community.brave.com/t/vimeo-videos-usually-do-not-play-at-all-in-brave-desktop-for-ubuntu-nor-in-brave-for-ios/210959

https://community.brave.com/t/vimeo-videos-not-playing/263580

https://community.brave.com/t/cannot-play-anything-on-vimeo/309486

https://community.brave.com/t/when-autoplay-is-blocked-vimeo-videos-wont-play-at-all/489738

https://community.brave.com/t/when-brave-blocks-autoplay-vimeo-videos-will-not-play-at-all/520187

[tutacat]

This is not the fault of Chromium/Brave browsers, this is the fault of the website implementing javascript. Whatever reason, they have not used a single short-running event, and are starting the playback from some other event/timer so it is not associated with the user action.

Workarounds:

1. Disable autoplay for websites that break
2. Click the page while/before it is loading and autoplay will enable that one time
3. Write a userscript through the internals of the player to make it work

This first workaround is easiest and simplest, and most websites that actually utilise autoplay work fine with this permission, just starting when clicked as usual.