Somehow AdGuard on mobile didn’t filter this horrible shit for me

Bromite didn't get it either. I think its a 1st party autoplay video?

Bromite is at this point abandonware, try Cromite instead

https://github.com/uazo/cromite

Awesome, thanks.

Weird. How does it integrate Adblock? Do they do a native Adblock the way brave does?

Wow, I tried disabling ublock and it is pretty bad. There are exactly 0 words of the body of the article visible when first loading the page on a 1440p monitor, two thirds of the screen are ads...

It's almost like you're teleported into browsing a different, parallel (and a way worse) web with a shitty UX when you turn off your ad-blocker.

That’s funny I did not notice it when I read the article. Had to go back to check again; I think my mind just blurred it all out and let me focus on the tiny scrollable section where the story is.

Why would you not have ublock origin installed?

I do, but it doesn't stop this particular ad. It's an internal ad.

Well I don't see it, and I have ublock origin. That's the only thing that could be hiding it.

Or you're in a country where the ad isn't served.

I'm on mobile.

Firefox on mobile has ublock origin available too

Hmm, I use firefox with ublock just fine

iphone problems :(

Glad its just a work phone.

Vivaldi's ad blocker thankfully means I have no idea what you're referring to. Stay tuned though, by next year they'll have ads of your friends eating mustard skittles, whether they do or not.

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uBlock Origin is the correct one.

I'm on firefox with uBO and have no video playing.

Yes, I have uBlock origin on Kiwi browser.

Seems like people with uBlock are split between getting it and not, so maybe it's just not served to everyone?

A/B testing or regional variants maybe.

Firefox Android with uBO here, and I got it. It's not an ad, technically, it's labeled "Watch More From Fast Company".

I just had to check on my iPhone with Firefox and ProtonVPN (doing what it can at) filtering ads. and yes, I saw it, too. that's so fucked up. time to go back to some custom Android ROM with Firefox + uBlock.

Can you use reader mode on iPhone Firefox? I found that let me read the article without the ad.

Haha yea, i thought exactly the same thing! Business insider, fast company, wired, all in the same league…

You need to uncheck `Ignore generic cosmetic filters` in uBO.

Brave + PiHole + uBlock Origin = no video ad, no top banner ad

Firefox + PiHole + no extensions = dumbass video, blank top banner ad (all the space is taken up but no content)

Just to be fair, uBlock on Firefox removes it as well. Just to note, that Brave is adding nothing here.

I intended to imply that uBlock Origin was the difference.

The choice of browser just represents what I had available to test with where different results were shown.

Firefox + uBlock Origin = no ads

This isn't an ad, it's a really bad promotion for first-party content. I still see it with uBO on Firefox.

Maybe Brave has extra visual filters that block this specific div?

> promotion for first-party content

The pedant in me says: that's an ad.

It's just one of the rare ones not delivered by a gigantic network, so it's far less likely to be a scam or malware. Still an ad though.

Fair, but it's a category of ad that uBO has a very hard time with.

lol yeah kinda ironic coming from fastcompany

Yeah, this pissed me off too. I’m currently combing through iOS safari settings trying to find out how “allow videos to autoplay” was ever enabled (there is a setting for this in “accessibility” but doesn’t seem to fix this website at least so I’m still looking)

Sadly, autoplay-blocking seems to be even more of an arms race than ad blocking.

Apart from that, as long as this garbage takes up screen space, it's still not enough.

I hope that the person who invented the "sticky video" idea has a long and happy life, in a completely different job, completely separated from anything that has to do with marketing.

This is the dark pattern that I hate most on mobile by a 1000 miles.

Really, if people here wouldn't use ad blockers and desktop computers in the majority, noone would be discussing the article at all.

It's not realistic to discuss UX while plastering your website with things like "mustard skittles hahaha" unless you want to deceive people and dumb them down.