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Amusingly the demo video only showed "this video can't be played" message, thanks to uMatrix blocking the third-party media requests.

If he'd made it a GIF it would have worked...

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> Don't use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead.

I use uMatrix to block 3rd party image requests by default, so gifs would have the same "problem". Of course it's not actually a problem at all, if the user chooses to block 3rd party images or video, that is their prerogative.

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