I don't use chrome, but it appears that policy change was from 2018 or so? 🤔
Well damn, how old was previous 2.0.0 browser? I can see it used Chromium 64.0.3282.119 (from 2017), guess that explains it. :LOL:
Anyway... Thanks for info.
Using mute=1 works, to autoplay animated videos as...