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 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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