video loading behavior in Safari
I was away from home for a month and did not bring my MacBook Air M1 with me. Upon returning I found Safari behaving strangely. Whenever I play a video from a news site (such as CNN or Washington Post) the little spinning circle indicating loading never goes away. Also the video remains somewhat dimmed the whole time (see screenshot below as example).
First I suspected this might be due to some fault in my internet connection, so to check this out I opened the same url's in a different browser. The behavior I observed in Safari was not present, and the videos played normally.
What is going on with this?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6