Autoplay not working for youtube videos

[Johannes5]

Expected behaviour

Video auto-plays when the component mounts.

The specific flow I have in mind:
user clicks on thumbnail -> a route like /video/youtube/38j9hF378hf opens -> video is playing (in fullscreen, if possible) automatically

Actual behaviour

No auto-play for youtube videos.
Autoplay for vimeo (only when enabled by browser)

Environment

• Browser: tried it on safari, firefox, or chromium browsers
• Version: I'm using "plyr-react": "^5.1.0",
• Operating System: MacOS (using M1 chip)
• Version: 12.3.1

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I'm using plyr-react and I was advised to forward the issue here:
chintan9/plyr-react#968

Basically, I'm calling the play method on the "canplay" event.
And autoplay doesn't trigger for youtube videos (when the route is loaded) but the video can sometimes start playingin the background, at a (seemingly) random time.