Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting

Re:Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting by richard_mcp on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:04PM (#21403941)

I like how a site with autoplay ads is reporting this.

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Re:Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting by artek on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:48PM (#21404279)

According to WSJ [1] the issue was that the ads were autoplaying with sound on. Just auto playing by itself isn't considered intrusive by the industry.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hostilities-rise-inside-g-o-med...

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Re:Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting by big_chungus on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:47PM (#21404640)

Some of us don't want to spring for unlimited data plans and get rather frustrated when reading textual news incurs the charges associated with streaming video. Bandwidth is not boundless for everyone.

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Re:Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting by unlinked_dll on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:32PM (#21404857)

> intrusive behavior not considered intrusive by those with incentives to be intrusive

Autoplay is evil everywhere unless I enable it explicitly.

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