Autoplay videos not blocked on CNN Business

Description of the issue: When landing on an article for CNN Business, a video starts autoplaying with sound.

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
Go to CNN Business and choose one of the articles.
Example: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/27/business/brexit-psa-astra-ellesmere/index.html

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
The result is the video autoplays on the page with sound.
Expected result:
Expected result is the browser should be able to prevent the video from playing or give the user a choice.
Reproduces how often:
Each time I visit the page it continues to happen.
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
Windows 10 1803
Version 0.65.121 Chromium: 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
I realize that it is very difficult to catch all websites that have these autoplay videos.
Thank you very much for your efforts!

1 Like

Same problem on mobile version:
Brave 1.0.99, Chromium 75.0.3770.101
Android 8.0.0.
Discussion on GitHub last September mentioned a hard-coded autoplay whitelist. Terrible practice, that, but irrelevant since CNN.com is not on that list. IMO autoplay block should be absolute if the user so chooses.

@Vague_N, @BraveGem,
Thank you for reporting – we actually do have an open issue for this right now. I’ve added this thread with your reports to the Github issue as a +1 on your behalf:

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