Videos on websites keep pausing themselves

[kaiyoma]

This is a really bizarre issue that I started encountering a couple months ago. Videos on websites (Slack, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc) sometimes do not play correctly. Specifically, when I start playback, the video plays for a fraction of a second, and then pauses. The same exact behavior can be observed on multiple unrelated websites, and happens in every browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox), even in browsers that are newly installed.I am seeing this problem on two separate machines (one laptop and one desktop), each running Windows 11, which is why I've posted this as a Windows 11 problem. I do *not*

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