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I actually like seeing ads (though I wish they weren't coming from omniscient ad networks and were instead coming from the sites I was visiting). Content provid
by inanutshellus 11y ago
I actually like seeing ads (though I wish they weren't coming from omniscient ad networks and were instead coming from the sites I was visiting). Content providers get money, I get free content. Nice.
HTML5 Video Ads are what finally switched me to ad blockers.
When people served static images and Adobe Flash videos, I could just disable auto-play of Flash, and voila, I see ads, but don't get obnoxious videos on random tabs. Now I have to block it all to get any peace.
Auto-playing video ads is just bad etiquette.
- bluejekyll 11y agoSafari at least added a disable all sound on a tab button. They should probably add or include video as an option too.
- daemin 11y agoYeah, Firefox has a mute tab button in each tab, but it still annoys me when all of a sudden I get some sound playing in the background for no reason.
- inanutshellus 11y agoI don't even want a video's worth of bandwidth going across the wire. Send me a picture of what you're selling, or don't sell me anything.
- lgas 11y agoI would prefer all tabs start muted and you have to enable sound if you're interested.
- marssaxman 11y agoThat's how I use JavaScript!
- rincebrain 11y agoChrome also has this button, though I don't know when they added it (right-click the tab, "Mute Tab").
- obsurveyor 11y agoAuto-playing any video content that isn't an explicit "click this link to watch a video" is bad etiquette imho.
- firebird84 11y agoI don't know about chrome, but in firefox you can disable autoplay on HTML5 now. It's a bit annoying for watching youtube because it assumes the video is already playing (you have to go click the pause and then click play) but annoying news sites and other nonsense don't bother me anymore.