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I am not seeing any autoplaying videos unrelated to the article that pop into a PIP window in the bottom of the screen as you scroll causing the amount that you

by dc3k 5y ago

I am not seeing any autoplaying videos unrelated to the article that pop into a PIP window in the bottom of the screen as you scroll causing the amount that you've scrolled to jump so you lose your place

rchaud 5y ago
We will be paying the price for Facebook's 2017-era "Pivot to video" advice for years to come.
- mohanmcgeek 5y ago
  I didn't know Facebook _advised_ publishers to pivot to video? I thought that trend started with publishers themselves noticing that video had better engagement?
  - telotortium 5y ago
    They overstated the average time that video was viewed in the newsfeed by only counting views of at least 3 seconds in the denominator of the average, but counting views of less than that in the numerator [0]: > About a month ago, we found an error in the way we calculate one of the video metrics on our dashboard – average duration of video viewed. The metric should have reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by the total number of people who played the video. But it didn’t – it reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by only the number of “views” of a video (that is, when the video was watched for three or more seconds). And so the miscalculation overstated this metric. While this is only one of the many metrics marketers look at, we take any mistake seriously. So advertisers, who had believed that video content had high engagement due to the misleading statistics, and so made business decisions based on that (laying off writers in favor of video producers), saw video view times drop 60%-80% after the fix, because the view time was inflated by all the 0.5s-1s views initiated while users were scrolling past videos and not really watching them. This was corrected in 2016 though, but perhaps many news sites, and society in general, are still feeling the effects of writing being deemphasized in favor of video. [0]: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metrics-update https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric...
coldpie 5y ago
I have no idea how anyone browses the web without NoScript.
- asdff 5y ago
  They give up and browse facebook instead
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  I had used uBlock Origin for years and years but recently had it with paywalls. Installed NoScript and took a few days to manually OK the stuff I need. Now during a work day, I find I OK something here or there but it’s made everything so much faster and cleaner. I can’t go back.
  - chakkepolja 5y ago
    You can disable / enable js in UBO on per-site basis. You can default disable js and enable when needed, or disable for certain sites only.
    - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
      Cool, but I have no issues with UBO. My post was about also adding NoScript and much additionally better than has made things.
- rambambram 5y ago
  I used NoScript heavily for years. No ads on Youtube all that time. A couple of months ago something went wrong and I started seeing ads again (wow, that was literally a headache for me). No matter how I configured No Script, I still wasn't able to get rid of the ads. After trying uBlock - because a lot of people here recommended it - it works fine again.
  - ikr678 5y ago
    I use ublock, and now somehow now have double the ads in Youtube (the ads auto play, but the actual video does not, and then clicking play on the video triggers a second cycle of ads). I havent yet figured out what changed in my ublock to cause it.

by dc3k 5y ago

rchaud 5y ago

We will be paying the price for Facebook's 2017-era "Pivot to video" advice for years to come.

mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I didn't know Facebook _advised_ publishers to pivot to video? I thought that trend started with publishers themselves noticing that video had better engagement?
- telotortium 5y ago
  They overstated the average time that video was viewed in the newsfeed by only counting views of at least 3 seconds in the denominator of the average, but counting views of less than that in the numerator [0]: > About a month ago, we found an error in the way we calculate one of the video metrics on our dashboard – average duration of video viewed. The metric should have reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by the total number of people who played the video. But it didn’t – it reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by only the number of “views” of a video (that is, when the video was watched for three or more seconds). And so the miscalculation overstated this metric. While this is only one of the many metrics marketers look at, we take any mistake seriously. So advertisers, who had believed that video content had high engagement due to the misleading statistics, and so made business decisions based on that (laying off writers in favor of video producers), saw video view times drop 60%-80% after the fix, because the view time was inflated by all the 0.5s-1s views initiated while users were scrolling past videos and not really watching them. This was corrected in 2016 though, but perhaps many news sites, and society in general, are still feeling the effects of writing being deemphasized in favor of video. [0]: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metrics-update https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric...

coldpie 5y ago

I have no idea how anyone browses the web without NoScript.

asdff 5y ago
They give up and browse facebook instead
SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
I had used uBlock Origin for years and years but recently had it with paywalls. Installed NoScript and took a few days to manually OK the stuff I need. Now during a work day, I find I OK something here or there but it’s made everything so much faster and cleaner. I can’t go back.
- chakkepolja 5y ago
  You can disable / enable js in UBO on per-site basis. You can default disable js and enable when needed, or disable for certain sites only.
  - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
    Cool, but I have no issues with UBO. My post was about also adding NoScript and much additionally better than has made things.
rambambram 5y ago
I used NoScript heavily for years. No ads on Youtube all that time. A couple of months ago something went wrong and I started seeing ads again (wow, that was literally a headache for me). No matter how I configured No Script, I still wasn't able to get rid of the ads. After trying uBlock - because a lot of people here recommended it - it works fine again.
- ikr678 5y ago
  I use ublock, and now somehow now have double the ads in Youtube (the ads auto play, but the actual video does not, and then clicking play on the video triggers a second cycle of ads). I havent yet figured out what changed in my ublock to cause it.