Hide Native Android HTML5 Video Play Button in CSS

Question

On iOS I can simply remove the play button by doing

video::-webkit-media-controls-start-playback-button {
  display: none !important;
}

How

Answer 1

For anyone who comes across this question, an alternative solution to the native one is to simply not include android-webview-video-poster: in your Content Security Policy. This will block the image from ever loading in the first place. Not sure if this is considered a hackish solution, but it seems to work for me.