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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by ziszis on Sunday November 13, 2016 @10:21AM (#12943719)
Why they do it? Easy. You are not the customer, the advertiser is. So as long as it is tolerable for a sufficient % of the audience, it is worth it.

Case in point, circumventing ad blockers. Audience explicitly doesn't want the ad experience, but Facebook wants to make more $. Facebook just announced a record quarter on desktop advertising fueled by successfully circumventing ad blockers.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/02/add-cash-plus/

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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by noir_lord on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:12AM (#12943985)
I wonder which adblockers they are successfully circumventing because with Ublock Origin out the box I've not seen any adverts for I forget how long.
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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by ziszis on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:21AM (#12944024)
AdBlock has commented on this and seems that there have been intermittent periods of no blocking: https://adblockplus.org/blog/ping-pong-with-facebook

"While Facebook appears to have had the last word for now, this, friends, is a long game. That being said, a few other ad blockers have apparently found workarounds to Facebook’s latest circumvention."

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Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Play... by noir_lord on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:51AM (#12944193)
That makes sense then.
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