Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:20AM (#12077088)

Part of their war on adblockers. In the past the adblocker nag has popped after you scroll down, well an autoplay video will get you scrolling to find out where it is and blam they pop the adblocker. Of course none of that happens if you hit 'reader view' in Firefox, nice easy to read article.

Its one of the reasons I've stopped reading Fortune and Wired web articles.

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by Larrikin on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @08:29AM (#12078460)

Don't all of the major videos have mute buttons on the tabs. Firefox has had it for a while now

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by bnolsen on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @09:08AM (#12078654)

mute doesn't seem to stop the bandwidth hogging.

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by arprocter on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @11:14AM (#12079689)

Although once the 'blocker' nag pops up reader view gives a cannot load message

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by guard-of-terra on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:24AM (#12077930)

Wrong answer. I don't have an adblocker, yet I have too got an auto-play video with very loud sound.

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Re:Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @10:52AM (#12079514)

Collateral damage?

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