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Re:The desperation of NYTimes by skybrian on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:04PM (#48402295)
Another example of being user-hostile is that they put videos on the front page that autoplay and can't be paused. I will not renew either.
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Re:The desperation of NYTimes by notsydonia on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:25PM (#48402614)
Agree -they all do it. How do they justify the bounce rate? It's never once been shown to my knowledge that viewers love to have their browsing/reading/knowledge gathering interrupted by a volume-up video playing (usually) an ad.

Is it just so they can tell advertisers X amount of people "viewed" your ad?

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Re:The desperation of NYTimes by skybrian on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:32PM (#48402754)
The videos I'm complaining about on the NYT aren't ads. They seem to think they're CNN or something. I don't want CNN. I want a newspaper.
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