The overlay only clears on 'playing', which never fires when the browser
blocks autoplay — and the overlay covers the native controls, so the
'swap to the native play button' assumption from the click-to-play
removal never held. A rejected v.play() is the signal: swap the dead
Loading… overlay for a tappable one (Play), and a second rejection
escalates to the Playback failed overlay.
Browser test fakes the policy (reject first gesture-less play()) since
headless Chromium allows autoplay. Logs showed the shape of it: six
loads of the same ep, 38-40 segments each, all 200, player never started.
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