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by richard_mcp 2422 days ago
I like how a site with autoplay ads is reporting this.
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artek 2422 days ago
According to WSJ [1] the issue was that the ads were autoplaying with sound on. Just auto playing by itself isn't considered intrusive by the industry.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hostilities-rise-inside-g-o-med...

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big_chungus 2422 days ago
Some of us don't want to spring for unlimited data plans and get rather frustrated when reading textual news incurs the charges associated with streaming video. Bandwidth is not boundless for everyone.
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unlinked_dll 2422 days ago
> intrusive behavior not considered intrusive by those with incentives to be intrusive

Autoplay is evil everywhere unless I enable it explicitly.

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