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Where's the auto-playing video that you can't get rid of, and which jumps into the sidebar and moves down along with you when you try to scroll past it?
by coffeecat 5y ago
Where's the auto-playing video that you can't get rid of, and which jumps into the sidebar and moves down along with you when you try to scroll past it?
- allenu 5y agoYup, and it has a close button that conveniently appears right beneath the scrollbar.
- pbourke 5y agoThe close button is a convenient 10x10 square consisting of a light blue X on a light gray background. It moves when you zoom in on mobile to click it.
- ub99 5y agoThe auto playing videos that are not related to the content of the article are, perhaps, the most baffling thing for me. I open an article and watch a video for a minute trying to understand the point - to only then realize that the video is unrelated. What’s the point of this? In most cases I close the website and add it to my blocklist.
- rchaud 5y agoThe videos usually have unskippable ads.
- Breza 5y agoAnd video ads carry much higher per-user prices then display ads. Especially if the whole ad finishes playing or you accidentally click on the ad when trying to close it.
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- ub99 5y agoOh I see. My ad blocker seems to block all those video ads pretty effectively! Even then, why would they not just run video ads in that spot? What is the point of trying to distract the user from the content of the article? Just feels weird to me.
- exciteabletom 5y ago> What is the point of trying to distract the user from the content of the article? The article is merely bait to get you to look at the ads. Once you are on the page, they don't care whether or not you read the article.
- rchaud 5y agoI've mostly seen autoplaying ads on "blog" sites like Forbes and Huffington Post or news websites. These are known as 'content mills' because they either reprint Associated Press/Reuters coverage, or they publish articles from freelance contributors. It's a bottomless pit of generic content. Front-load every article with an autoplaying video w/ ads, and that can make some decent revenue if your site has a lot of traffic.
- daveoc64 5y agoThey can play an ad before and after the video, and often the video itself is some sort of sponsored content.