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I thought that was the case too. But it seems it actually starts on scroll.

That's only epsilon better. The only time that a web page should play music is if the user clicks on a button to start a video or play an audio clip. That's it. Period.

sorry, if the page was laggy and you initialized scroll, the pages scrolls to position and autoplays a video. It does not happen on load, lessons learned

Please reread my first comment. I've said nothing about the page being laggy. In fact, on my system, it didn't lag at all.

What makes you think it's okay to automatically play sound when the user starts scrolling? What were you thinking? That's not a sarcastic put-down. I would like to know what could have possibly been going on in your brain when you thought that this was anything but a horrible, off-putting design decision.

Oh ok.. I just fixed the volume to 25%

How about lowering it to zero?

Probably something along the lines of "if we put a play button and a video not many people click it so why not just play by default?"