Description of the issue:
How I usually watch YouTube videos is to have my Subscriptions open in one tab, then CMD+click each of the videos I want to watch, so they each open in separate background tabs.
When I do this, the first video tab I go to does not play until I click Play.
But when I close that tab, and the next tab to the right becomes the focus, that video begins playing immediately — Brave’s autoplay blocker has failed. This problem continues for each subsequent tab.
If I CMD+clicked on 5 videos to open them in consecutive background tabs, the first one doesn’t autoplay, but the rest do when brought to the foreground.
(For comparison, if I allow Autoplay in Brave’s settings, but use the AutoplayStopper extension, I don’t have this problem.
How can this issue be reproduced?
- brave://settings/content/autoplay > block autoplay
- https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
- CMD+click on several videos to open them in background tabs
- Click the first of those tabs
RESULT: Video does not autoplay - CMD+W to close the first tab, resulting in the second tab gaining focus
Expected result: Same as in #4
Actual result: Video autoplays - Repeat #5 for remaining tabs, and get the same result
ALSO, sometimes even that first tab autoplays.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.51.118
macOS 12.6.3 and 10.13.6