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by Osiris 3487 days ago
I recently had to add special rules to ublock because cnet.com and cnn.com were auto playing videos that were completely unrelated to the story, and there were huge blocks of ads on the left, right, and in the middle of the story.

I'm also fine with some advertising, but auto-playing video with sound is where I draw the line (especially when bandwidth sensitive).

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I've started building a document with my uBlock filters to sync between browsers because of auto-playing videos and static divs covering a third of my screen in web apps. I am now actively involved in enhancing my web experience rather than just setting a broad/loose filter to get rid of most of the junk... that can't be good for content creators going forward.