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CableZL
09/12/21 2:27:11 AM
#1:


*Video in the lower right corner auto-plays*
*Pause video in lower right*
*Another video further down the page immediately auto-plays*

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Why

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Kombucha
09/12/21 2:41:54 AM
#2:


Do not question the future of journalism

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Gobstoppers12
09/12/21 2:44:15 AM
#3:


Auto-play videos are good for page-view metrics and ad revenue.

They're obnoxious but they're not going to go away unless we, as a society, stop visiting the sites that use them.

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UnholyMudcrab
09/12/21 2:44:29 AM
#4:


*pause video*
*scroll down*
*video expands to take up half the page and begins playing again*

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CableZL
09/12/21 3:03:37 AM
#5:


I paused both videos and then got up to do something else

THEN THE FIRST VIDEO STARTED PLAYING AGAIN

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Questionmarktarius
09/12/21 3:09:17 AM
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
Auto-play videos are good for page-view metrics and ad revenue.
Except, they aren't.
New ad formats are good for getting absurd clickthrough rates for about two days, before everyone figures out "this is an ad". Unfortunately, it always becomes the next big thing and propagates everywhere, long after it's already been rejected by the masses.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video
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