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relyat08
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It's a bug. They definitely aren't intentionally doing something like that. A number of users, including myself, had to deal with it on a number of occasions, which a lot of this, and similar threads, are focused on. |
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10420 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Actually, it's more of an... accident. We told them to provide us an embed with auto-play disabled. However it was a long time before we gave those instructions until we finally implemented the video player, so they may have forgotten.
I noticed it was auto-play shortly after we implemented, and I'm waiting for user feedback. I personally hate autoplay, but surprisingly, there's only been one complaint (Thorfinn's). I'm still going to have autoplay disabled tomorrow though. |
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relyat08
Posts: 4125 Location: Northern Virginia |
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Okay good. I actually hadn't run into the new one until after I posted here, but yeah, when I get to the bottom of the page and it starts without prompt, it's a little bit startling. Not the worst thing in the world, but I would definitely rather it not be autoplay.
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Shiratori-san
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If it's necessary for people to complain about the obvious, let me join in. That auto-play feature is very annoying.
 Especially since I have the sound on in my computer, it becomes as atrocious as it gets. And if you are in a public place...
It also takes more MB if you are using a phone in desktop mode. If this continues for too long, I may start considering leaving the site as well. But it makes me sad, because I've been using ANN for years and I like it a lot 
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CatSword
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There's a new video and the autoplay bug still hasn't been fixed.
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Takkun4343
 Posts: 1499 Location: Englewood, Ohio |
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I'm not sure if these count as invasive, but the video ads that have been recently popping up in the sidebar are very distracting, and it'd be better if they were removed and replaced with stationary ads.
UPDATE: These video ads really need to go; mousing over them automatically expands them, which I'm pretty sure is frowned upon. |
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10420 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Can you tell us what ads in question? What's the name of the advertising network (it's listed above or below the ad) and who is the ad for? A screencap would be great.
The ads are completely different from city to city (let alone country to country) and user to user. I'm not seeing video ads, so I don't know which ad to report to our network. |
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Takkun4343
Posts: 1499 Location: Englewood, Ohio |
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Kinda hard for me to do that now, seeing how they vanished before I read your message... All I can say is that they were video commercials for Aleve. If they pop up again, I'll tell you more.
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10420 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Okay, if you see something similar again, a screenshot would be amazing.
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Takkun4343
Posts: 1499 Location: Englewood, Ohio |
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Something similar just popped up, and now I have a screenshot to prove it.
The ad on the right is one of those "expands as you hover over it" ones I mentioned earlier.[/img] |
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daishi808
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As it was mentioned in a previous thread I got a drive by javascript exploit from one of the ads yesterday. Unfortunately I only have the link of the malware domain that was blocked as I was more concerned to close out the offending browser window.
I'm on Spectrum (formerly Oceanic Time Warner Cable). My AV detected and blocked the attack. I'm not getting any other drive by's on my computer leading me to believe that it was injected from a compromised ad. PM me if you want the link to the malware domain. |
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Mad_Scientist
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Got a video ad from the kiosked network that was invasive.
Not because it autoplayed sound or anything, but because it kept on forcing my screen to scroll down to it every time it started a new video. I was reading Jake's Digimon game impressions, and then suddenly BAM! I'm at the bottom of the article staring at an ad. I scroll up, continue reading from where I left off, and in the middle of the next paragraph, bam, it happens again. And so on, and so on. 
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HeeroTX
Posts: 2046 Location: Austin, TX |
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I don't know what ad it is, but something on this site just wrecked my browser. I was trying to reply and after a sentence I lost all responsiveness in Chrome.
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