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Autoplaying unrelated ad video with music, half way down the page (well out of sight when the audio starts) with no way to stop it apart from clicking on the ad
by SimonPStevens 11y ago
Autoplaying unrelated ad video with music, half way down the page (well out of sight when the audio starts) with no way to stop it apart from clicking on the ad.
That's it, I've had enough of you internet, I'm going to use a adblocker. I really tried to give you a chance. I tried to let you do the right thing and show polite respectful ads. I understand that you need to make money, and I wanted to let you show your ads I really did, I even clicked on them sometimes when they looked interesting, but this is just too much. This is just abuse. I'm not taking this any more. You brought this on yourself, and your bad behaviour has ruined it for everyone else. Goodbye world of advertising, I hope you drown in your own filth. I look forward to an internet where people pay for things they like and the advertising revenue model dies a painful death.
- pinkrooftop 11y agowhen adblockers start charging, I'll believe in an alternate revenue model for the open internet edit: I meant when people start paying for adblockers
- SimonPStevens 11y agoAdblock for iOS - $1.99 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock/id691121579 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock/id691121579
- xur17 11y agohttps://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/ https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
- pinkrooftop 11y agoI think I stated my idea incorrectly, I mean when people start paying for adblockers. Which Hulu+ is doing quite well actually
- dspillett 11y agoI think we need an alternative to ad blocking. I'd like to be warned "if you follow this link you'll go to a site that is know to use auto-playing audio, are you sure?", preferably a purely visual warning rather than one that requires extra clicks if I do interact with the link. That way they don't even count me as a visitor, never mind an advert impression. Of course writing add-ins to do that, populating the database, protecting the data from malicious updates, and so forth, would not be a quick one-off job. This is one of the (many) items on my list of stuff to do if I ever develop infinite free time...