User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An Update on the Future of Featured Video/@comment-44424233-20191210213600

For me, one of the biggest taboos of web design is to have a video autoplay on a page that is not designed around that video. For example, a youtube video page can autoplay it's video as that is the purpose of the page. A youtube channel's home page however should not autoplay a featured video (example: Pewdiepie ). I am not against having the videos, but just have them load with a static thumbnail and don't stream the video file until someone clicks the play button. Never assume the user has the bandwidth to spare or is in a place that sudden unexpected audio is acceptable.