Doesn't autoplay for me, possibly because I have "media.autoplay.blocking_policy" set to 2.
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That did it! Wonderful!
Thank you very much. None of what I found by searching even mentioned this setting.
on a technicality this is not a bug. videos are allowed to play as a response to an event (and page loads, if you allow it) such as a click. the website is using your "blessed click event" from when you clicked search to play the video.
this is because in general, websites load a new page on a search (can't trigger autoplay), but this site does not and is therefore able to use your click event from the same page.
Oh, I see. I did notice it behaves quite differently than most search features, so the ELI5 is it's interpreting clicking "go" the same way as clicking "play."
I wonder if there's any way around this. This is just one example, but I suspect there are other sites that would behave in such a way. Maybe there's a uBlock filter? I'll do some searching. Thanks for explaining, that makes a lot of sense how you explained it.
I guess it’s a bug since I have the same problem on macOS.
I'm tempted to download a non-Firefox browser to test it. If it's a bug with the site, then webcompat will just close it as not a Firefox issue.