If ytNoCookie is true, YouTube video will not autoplay in Safari

[bfintal]

This is a bit odd, if you have ytNoCookie: true YouTube videos will not play automatically when you open the popup in Safari (I'm using Mac), it works in all other browsers.

I initially thought that it might be Safari's security feature to prevent auto-play from websites, but it still doesn't work if I set Safari's preferences to allow autoplay for the YT's no-cookie domain https://www.youtube-nocookie.com

Here's how to enable autoplay in Safari: Open Youtube > Click Safari > Settings for this website > Change 'Auto-Play' setting to Allow always

Any clue as to why this happens?

[henrygd]

Sorry, I was moving and haven't had time to look at this.

Is the behavior any different if you directly visit the iframe embed url?

I tried Safari 13 through 17 on browserstack. None autoplayed initially, but after checking 'allow all autoplay' it does autoplay as expected.

[bfintal]

Thanks. It's odd, I'm tying on Safari 16.3, it's not working even when visiting the embed URL, but it plays in other browsers. Perhaps it's with the browser