autoplaying videos on websites

adolf hamster

adolf hamster

adolf hamster

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anyone else find this really annoying? outside of youtube (other dedicated video streaming sites are available but not as good) i find it really grinds my gears when i click on a link here to some news site or other and it instantly starts playing either the news report or some advert for cillit bang or somesuch at maximum volume.

whatever happened to just having a play button?
 
They have to alert everyone around you that you just clicked one of those "YOU WONT BELIEVE..." links.

It's a Public Service.
 
adolf hamster said:
anyone else find this really annoying? outside of youtube (other dedicated video streaming sites are available but not as good) i find it really grinds my gears when i click on a link here to some news site or other and it instantly starts playing either the news report or some advert for cillit bang or somesuch at maximum volume.

whatever happened to just having a play button?
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These people will be punished when the die. Autoplay videos on news websites are the worst.
 
JessieD said:
These people will be punished when the die. Autoplay videos on news websites are the worst.
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Cillit Bang. :D

It is the Karlie Kloss that I find so irritating. Yet I have no idea who she is but she is everywhere.

 
Hate it, ad blocker stops most but god they are annoying.

Another one for the list is the "stories you may find interesting" frame that is locked so it stays in view as you scroll. I've seen them take up so much screen space that I couldn't view the images in the article, just ridiculous.
 
It might be the added BS that the internet has thrown us over the last 10 years, or just that i've become more bitter, cynical and nihilist. But I am using the Internet (browsers) less and less these days. I grow tired of it and even my career in IT.
I care more about what's happening outside, which actually make me more depressed. :p
 
Rossi~ said:
It might be the added BS that the internet has thrown us over the last 10 years, or just that i've become more bitter, cynical and nihilist. But I am using the Internet (browsers) less and less these days. I grow tired of it and even my career in IT.
I care more about what's happening outside, which actually make me more depressed. :p
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V F said:
Some are ridiculous. Every 8 - 10 minutes for an hour. They come up even when you skip the yellow markers.
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indeed, its sad to see youtube taking the torch that the rest of the internet has been carrying for a while now, for a good time there they were among the more sensible internet advertisers.

thing that gets me is it's constantly trying to sell me coffee machines and womens handbags, which i should probably take pride in that they plainly know damn all about me and therefore cant target their ads for toffee.
 
adolf hamster said:
thing that gets me is it's constantly trying to sell me coffee machines and womens handbags, which i should probably take pride in that they plainly know damn all about me and therefore cant target their ads for toffee.
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Thought they were ads for coffee machines and handbags?
 
adolf hamster said:
indeed, its sad to see youtube taking the torch that the rest of the internet has been carrying for a while now, for a good time there they were among the more sensible internet advertisers.

thing that gets me is it's constantly trying to sell me coffee machines and womens handbags, which i should probably take pride in that they plainly know damn all about me and therefore cant target their ads for toffee.
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Isn't this what the Internet is now? Just one big giant ad campaign. Feels like you're always in a meeting cooking up the next ad.

 
Aside from the ads I'm finding the internet and youtube in general fairly unusable now. If I search for something in google then the firts few pages are just shops selling somehting similar to what I searched for. Youtube is similar too; if I search for a review of a product the first pages are shops selling the product doing their own "review" of it.
 
builder22 said:
I love on news(paper) websites when you have to watch a 30 sec ad just to watch the report
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indeed, on top of the page plastered with ads.

one does wonder why companies are spending so much on advertising, do they really think it works?

literally the only thing i can think of that i bought and only found out due to advertising (or more correctly a sponsored video on a yt channel i was watching anyway) was an odin innovations speedloader, which tbh even without the advertising i'd have bought on the moment i saw one in a shop anyway because it's insanely useful for its application.

aside from that i've never seen an ad saying "buy a coffee maker" and then went and bought a coffee maker, in fact to this day i have never, and likely will never own a coffee maker.
 
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