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Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by alpaca128 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:12PM (#17532665)
What I find just as bad are autoplaying videos popping up somewhere at the side or sometimes even staying at the edge of the screen when you scroll. They usually don't get blocked by adblockers and are just as annoying as pop-up ads with sound.

I installed a domain block addon just for ensuring I never accidentally visit one of these sites again. There are 1000+ other sites reporting about the same news, I can live without a couple of them.

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Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by MrMember on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:46PM (#17544433)
This is extra annoying on mobile. Often a quarter of the screen is taken up by a persistent menu bar that I'll never use, half by an autoplaying video that I'll never watch, leaving just a quarter of the screen space for the actual content I was looking for.
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