Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outgoing FTC Commissioner

Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by inanutshellus on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:04AM (#11421530)

I actually like seeing ads (though I wish they weren't coming from omniscient ad networks and were instead coming from the sites I was visiting). Content providers get money, I get free content. Nice.

HTML5 Video Ads are what finally switched me to ad blockers.

When people served static images and Adobe Flash videos, I could just disable auto-play of Flash, and voila, I see ads, but don't get obnoxious videos on random tabs. Now I have to block it all to get any peace.

Auto-playing video ads is just bad etiquette.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by obsurveyor on Monday April 04, 2016 @01:44PM (#11423783)

Auto-playing any video content that isn't an explicit "click this link to watch a video" is bad etiquette imho.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by firebird84 on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:02PM (#11424448)

I don't know about chrome, but in firefox you can disable autoplay on HTML5 now. It's a bit annoying for watching youtube because it assumes the video is already playing (you have to go click the pause and then click play) but annoying news sites and other nonsense don't bother me anymore.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by bluejekyll on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:35AM (#11421728)

Safari at least added a disable all sound on a tab button. They should probably add or include video as an option too.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by daemin on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:51AM (#11421837)

Yeah, Firefox has a mute tab button in each tab, but it still annoys me when all of a sudden I get some sound playing in the background for no reason.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by inanutshellus on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:49AM (#11422790)

I don't even want a video's worth of bandwidth going across the wire.

Send me a picture of what you're selling, or don't sell me anything.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by lgas on Monday April 04, 2016 @02:07PM (#11423960)

I would prefer all tabs start muted and you have to enable sound if you're interested.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by marssaxman on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:24PM (#11425271)

That's how I use JavaScript!

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by rincebrain on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:24PM (#11424620)

Chrome also has this button, though I don't know when they added it (right-click the tab, "Mute Tab").

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