Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: WTF? Autoplaying video ads with sound? 2
Slashdot used to be a safe site to visit, it never made noise when you didn't want it to, making it the go-to site for quiet, in-office news aggregation.
Not anymore. I just had to mute my laptop due to a slashdot auto-playing video advert.
Happened here also (Score:1)
I think blocking 'player.ooyala.com' worked, and everything loads faster too.
I hate that even with site content (Score:1)
Nothing should automatically start making noise on a web page. It's annoying at work on a machine bogged down by anti-virus anyways to be eating lunch and ctrl-clicking a bunch of articles to load in the background, and all of a sudden your PC comes to a grinding halt and blasts a bunch of noise in the office. Then I have to furiously look thru the tabs to see which one is the offender and close it. And apologize to my coworkers.
And I don't view that content or its page. Advertisers ought to wake up to