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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by cpeterso on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:26AM (#12562516)
Advertisers will find a workaround and it will inevitably be much worse for the user. In the following talk, someone from the Google Chrome team describes how, when they tried to not autoplay videos on Android, video advertisers worked around the restriction by compiling video codecs to JavaScript and then rendering their video-like ads to an HTML canvas.

https://youtu.be/wQGa_6CRc9I?t=23m52s

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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by colejohnson66 on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:32AM (#12562721)
That's where NoScript comes in
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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by NoGravitas on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:24AM (#12564007)
Or blocking 3rd party scrips with uBlock.
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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by raverbashing on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:39AM (#12563561)
Don't ad networks charge for ad size as well? (or they should start charging for this - would cut on abuse)

If your ad is > 50k then you're paying a fee per display, even if you're "pay per click"

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