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I would love to have a discussion with the person(s) who think that having an autoplay video pop up and cover 40% of the article I’m trying to read is a good id

I would love to have a discussion with the person(s) who think that having an autoplay video pop up and cover 40% of the article I’m trying to read is a good idea.

nkrisc 6y ago
They'll just show you the chart that shows the resulting increase to ad revenue and then put their fingers in their ears.
selectodude 6y ago
https://www.greathillpartners.com/ceos/jim-spanfeller/ https://www.greathillpartners.com/ceos/jim-spanfeller/ Shoot him an email. Maybe ask him why he's such an herb.
- shredprez 6y ago
  "An herb", good god. But completely agree. For anyone who hasn't followed what's happening to Gawker's corpse, this is worth a read: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584 https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-183...
  - eindiran 6y ago
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb Note the pronunciation given for US and Canadian English, with the optional /h/: /(h)ɝb/ If your dialect pronounces it as /ɝb/ it is perfectly natural to say "an herb" (/æn ɝb/) and saying "a herb" (/eɪ ɝb/ or /ə ɝb/) with that pronunciation is incorrect.
    - shredprez 6y ago
      I repeat, good god. I am familiar with the linguistic norms at play here, and if I come across an herb in a grassy meadow, I’ll happily say so. It’s specifically the collision of the dialectal “an” and a slang expression strictly pronounced with a “hard” h that got me. A person is never called an ‘erb, unless the individual speaking is themselves a total herb. In any case, no offense intended to OP! It genuinely made me laugh. And none intended to you either, this exchange has been very HN in the best way.
dorkwood 6y ago
It doesn't have a close button, either.
leonidasv 6y ago
Not to mention the number of advertisements that take up the whole screen in the middle of the text. That plus the video killed my motivation to continue reading the story.
pwg 6y ago
With NoScript (https://noscript.net/ https://noscript.net/) blocking all of the javascript by default, I got no autoplay video and no article coverup at all. I simply got a blog post that I read through from start to finish without anything else getting in the way.
- devenblake 6y ago
  uBlock Origin worked great too!
piyush_soni 6y ago
Firefox Developer Edition, with uBlock origin installed. I don't see anything you said.
itronitron 6y ago
Be sure to tell them that is why people like myself don't even bother visiting such sites.
generalizations 6y ago
I would love to have a discussion with the person who doesn't browse the web with uBlock Origin (or similar).
- deleted 6y ago
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- meddlepal 6y ago
  Talk to an iPhone user?
  - bdcravens 6y ago
    iOS has supported ad blocking for a bit.
  - TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
    Brave blocks this on iPhone. I’m using it now, even though much of HN hates Brave.

I would love to have a discussion with the person(s) who think that having an autoplay video pop up and cover 40% of the article I’m trying to read is a good idea.

nkrisc 6y ago

They'll just show you the chart that shows the resulting increase to ad revenue and then put their fingers in their ears.

selectodude 6y ago

https://www.greathillpartners.com/ceos/jim-spanfeller/ https://www.greathillpartners.com/ceos/jim-spanfeller/ Shoot him an email. Maybe ask him why he's such an herb.

shredprez 6y ago
"An herb", good god. But completely agree. For anyone who hasn't followed what's happening to Gawker's corpse, this is worth a read: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584 https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-183...
- eindiran 6y ago
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb Note the pronunciation given for US and Canadian English, with the optional /h/: /(h)ɝb/ If your dialect pronounces it as /ɝb/ it is perfectly natural to say "an herb" (/æn ɝb/) and saying "a herb" (/eɪ ɝb/ or /ə ɝb/) with that pronunciation is incorrect.
  - shredprez 6y ago
    I repeat, good god. I am familiar with the linguistic norms at play here, and if I come across an herb in a grassy meadow, I’ll happily say so. It’s specifically the collision of the dialectal “an” and a slang expression strictly pronounced with a “hard” h that got me. A person is never called an ‘erb, unless the individual speaking is themselves a total herb. In any case, no offense intended to OP! It genuinely made me laugh. And none intended to you either, this exchange has been very HN in the best way.

dorkwood 6y ago

It doesn't have a close button, either.

leonidasv 6y ago

Not to mention the number of advertisements that take up the whole screen in the middle of the text. That plus the video killed my motivation to continue reading the story.

pwg 6y ago

With NoScript (https://noscript.net/ https://noscript.net/) blocking all of the javascript by default, I got no autoplay video and no article coverup at all. I simply got a blog post that I read through from start to finish without anything else getting in the way.

devenblake 6y ago
uBlock Origin worked great too!

piyush_soni 6y ago

Firefox Developer Edition, with uBlock origin installed. I don't see anything you said.

itronitron 6y ago

Be sure to tell them that is why people like myself don't even bother visiting such sites.

generalizations 6y ago

I would love to have a discussion with the person who doesn't browse the web with uBlock Origin (or similar).

deleted 6y ago
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meddlepal 6y ago
Talk to an iPhone user?
- bdcravens 6y ago
  iOS has supported ad blocking for a bit.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
  Brave blocks this on iPhone. I’m using it now, even though much of HN hates Brave.