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It took a while to load on my phone (crowded spectrum, frequently crappy bandwidth) and nothing appeared to be happening until it did. Might be the same thing you're seeing.

Are you using a browser that doesn't support H.264, perhaps?

Just the normal version of Chrome. All plugins off yields the same result.

Running Chrome on Linux, videos play fine for me, they're just MP4 videos with HTML5 video controls.

Broken for me too. For me it might be because my laptop has a higher device pixel ratio.

That seems rather unlikely. Why do you think that would possibly affect video playback on a website?

The second line of the page "on iPhone 7" gets cut off on my laptop, and that's most likely DPR issue. Certainly possible for a button to become unpressable due to CSS issues around DPR.