UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Example URL:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install a kiosk app with a webview component in ChromeOS
2. Open a webpage with an auto-playing video that has sound
3. The video does not play

What is the expected behavior?
The video automatically plays with sound. 

What went wrong?
The autoplay policy default has been changed to "require user gesture", which is impossible for digital signage. 

Did this work before? Yes v65

Is it a problem with Flash or HTML5? HTML5

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 66 and up  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version: 

Contents of chrome://gpu: 

Our customers install our kiosk app for digital signage playback on their ChromeOS devices. They *want* and *need* all the content to play automatically. That is the whole point of the app. And that is why they consciencely installed the app. In essence they already give permission to autoplay by installing the app. 

Instead the new autoplay default intended for the Chrome/Chromium browser now spills over to kiosk apps as well. This completely breaks its usability for digital signage.