Brave-ios: Disable video autoplay on iOS?

[GT-GH]

Description:

I followed a link to this site from a thread on Apple's support forums, saying this browser allows disabling video autoplay on iOS. I've been experimenting with the browser on my iPhone for a while now but cannot find a way to set autoplay to off. Videos play automatically on the sites I tried (e.g., cnn.com). I searched the wiki and the issues page but the word "autoplay" doesn't bring up any results. Please help a newbie.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to a CNN story that contains video

Thanks!

[danishjafri88]

@GT-GH, thanks for taking the effort!
@anthonypkeane should we have a setting to disable AutoPlay completely.
Current autoplay policy: https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

[anthonypkeane]

Yes, that would be good.
cc @jamesmudgett for UX and @EyanGoldman

[EyanGoldman]

@GT-GH sorry for the delayed response on this one! I'm looking into this right now.

[jhreis]

This is definitely a must, but does require a good bit of design work potentially. If disabling auto play on a website, do we allow per-site re-enabling?

Potentially similar design mechanism as https://github.com/brave/brave-ios/issues/1345

[jamesmudgett]

Global toggle, for now would be a great setting to have.

[GT-GH]

I second the vote for a global toggle. I never want videos to autoplay.

[anthonypkeane]

Under Other Settings add
Enable background video autoplay (on/off toggle) with the default On

_On to respect the standard in https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/_

[anthonypkeane]

I made an error here as I forgot we stop auto play today
Therefore to respect this
-> Enable background video autoplay (on/off toggle) with the default On
should change to
-> Enable background video autoplay (on/off toggle) with the default Off

[anthonypkeane]

Internal thread: https://bravesoftware.slack.com/archives/C06UXF3KJ/p1571341966118800?thread_ts=1571336493.109000&cid=C06UXF3KJ

[srirambv]

Enabling the setting and visiting cnn.com is causing the native video player to open up and persist its not allowing media playback on the article page.
media autoplay.zip

[srirambv]

Moving this out of 1.13 as it requires more indepth testing and investigation which is out of scope for 1.13

[srirambv]

+1 from @tankmohit via #1952

[jhreis]

Removed from milestone, see https://github.com/brave/brave-ios/issues/1738 for follow up ticket.