Enabling autoplay on Safari for Fairplay protected premium contents

Safari in macOS High Sierra uses differential privacy to block media elements with sound from auto-playing on most websites. Using differential privacy, we are able to algorithmically identify an up-to-date set of websites for which most users prefer auto-play with sound, such as popular video websites e.g. twitch.tv, douyu.com, ndtv.com. Our algorithmic approach allows us infer auto-play policies worldwide, and is capable of identifying and adapting to trending new websites.

Best wishes,

Jon

Anyone?

Hi Jond,

I didn't see your post yesterday for some reason. How can our website/application be included in the differential privacy's algorithm? By having more users manually allowing auto-play in the website rules of Safari?

Regards,

It will happen automatically as users choose to play video content on your site.

Thanks for the info Jond

Hi Jond

What do you mean by 'Choose to play video content'. Does it mean Safari looks at user clicks to see if videos are being played or does it mean Safari looks at the "Settings for this Website" being changed by the user.

Without going into details of exactly how the algorithm works, it is a combination of both that provides signals of when users want to play content on a given site.

Is it possible for an iOS user to opt-in for <audio> content on a web site, such as using site preferences as can be done on MacOS? I have not been able to find any settings to allow this on an iPhone or iPad.

Alternatively, if a user has installed a PWA app, is it be possible for that app to play <audio> content without user interaction.

I can't display audio controls in my app or it would destroy the user experience - I need to play voice prompts without distracting the user from what they see on their screen. Sometimes those voice prompts can't be played in direct response to a user interaction. My app is a PWA app, so it can garner the look and feel like a native app - but if it can't play audio like a native app that kinda *****.

Any alternative solution? I need notification sound in my web app without user clicked 😁

I cannot agree more with what @lablodge said about playing sound without user interaction. For our use, we have meeting recordings of the user and want to play it back to the user. But the problem is that all the streams are played according to the given recorded timeline and I cannot ask the user to click a button each time a new stream starts.

Would it not be possible to prompt the user to confirm that he allows the site to autoplay video/audio tracks without interaction? I agree that most of the time it's really a good mecanism but a specific permission, which could be permanent or not, for the website would be great.

I Googled around but still haven't found any workaroung for this. Any update?

Using https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js solved it for me. I tried both on iPhone and iPad in Safari and Chrome

@ddikman Maybe it works for audio-only (like a notification sound) but probably not when trying to play video with audio content as the lib is for playing sound only.