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Exactly. They (the media companies that took ads too far and ruined the experience for us) did this to themselves. Ad blockers would have never proliferated, h
by mangeletti 11y ago
Exactly.
They (the media companies that took ads too far and ruined the experience for us) did this to themselves. Ad blockers would have never proliferated, had the web not come to a state where 25% of web requests were ads and tracking requests.
- justaman 11y agoI'm reminded of the ads that had audio. These were the worst! Imagine an adblocker that blocks what we know are the worst. Then, implement an upvote/downvote overlay system to the ads and if downvoted, dynamically remove them from the page and future requests on a per user basis. The votes are tallied and if beyond a certain threshold, global block. Then, sell this information back to the advertisement agencies.
- GavinMcG 11y agoI wish they were a thing of the past. I don't always use an ad blocker, and I was surprised by having a video advertisement start playing automatically, broadcasting “Don’t take painful sex lying down!” to the entire room, and continuing with information about vaginal tearing. This was on the New York Times website, of all places.
- muddi900 11y agoAutoplaying videos. They are the worst. Especially of you have metered internet, which a sizable population does.
- gherkin0 11y agoThey're annoying even if they're legitimate, like CNN having an auto-play video (even on mobile) at the top of every news article. I use firefox, so I disabled them all using media.autoplay.enabled = false. That solved it, but it made Youtube embeds and a few other things work a little funny.