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Surprising they don't mention what I imagine has to be the obvious culprit: video ads. It's not even about advertising for me -- static ads don't bother me tha
by crazygringo 2y ago
Surprising they don't mention what I imagine has to be the obvious culprit: video ads.
It's not even about advertising for me -- static ads don't bother me that much. But whenever there's autoplaying video in the corner of a page, I hate it so much. Whether it's an ad, or a news site that inexplicably thinks I want to multitask and watch their news channel at the same time I read their article. It's genuinely hard to read the article when there's constant motion an inch or two away at all times!
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoFirefox has an option to turn autoplay (sound and video) off for those ads that get past ublock origin.
- schiffern 2y agouBlock Origin can also block media elements larger than X MB (I use 8 MB so it still loads large images), preventing the video from loading in the first place. Disabling autoplay prevents it from playing, but the video is still downloaded.
- dns_snek 2y agoDoes this actually work? Most videos on the internet aren't loaded as one large file, but as sequence of short few-second long chunks.
- pornel 2y agoAds work around lack of autoplay by loading massive image filmstrips containing video frames (often split across hundreds of image files), and animating that in JS or CSS. This has all the annoyance of autoplay, with even worse bandwidth and memory usage.
- alden5 2y agoThat's your monkey brain hard at work making sure you notice movement that could mean danger in your peripheral vision, funny how much technology is built off of manipulating primal parts of our brains
- MrMember 2y agoThe other day I was on a page with an autoplaying video. When I started scrolling it popped out into the corner so I closed it, and there was another autoplaying video underneath it. I've never seen anything like that and I just had to kind of look at it in amazement.