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Autoplay video-ads

That's not... nice... and actually not helpful

         

explorador

6:26 am on Dec 24, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Hi there, been busy on other stuff (not computers) and suddenly grab one of my laptops, browse the web for research on some stuff and start to hear voices. Been coming across several good, nice sites with adsense but with ads consuming my bandwidth, plus generating unwanted noise. I didn't click on the ads but by bad luck, the cursor ended up over some ad area... this initiated the "expanding".

Checked the ads and they had the Adsense thing, they come from adsense. And I-hate-them. Surprise, I'm really respectful of ads and other webmasters making money on their content but as of today, it was enough to download adblocker for this laptop, no kidding.

Constantly browse the web, never found this until this week. Any idea on how to turn it off? any idea if there is an option to avoid this on our sites? I don't want any of my visitors experiencing this annoying stuff. So, perhaps it's not new but I saw this until today. My thoughts? it sucks and won't help the already bad business of advertising.

not2easy

7:08 am on Dec 24, 2015 (gmt 0)

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It might have been a new version of one of those "expanding" ads that can be bigger than the page they're on. They are on by default until the site owner hears about them and turns them off. Something that should be opt-in, not opt-out IMO.

LuckyD

11:43 am on Dec 24, 2015 (gmt 0)

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As far as I know, AdSense has no auto playing video ads. If you have rich media ads enabled for your standard content ad units, the visitor might choose to press play, and that's it. Just to clarify, what do you mean by "they had the Adsense thing"? If it's just the AdChoices logo, this is not an indicator that the ad is served by AdSense.

IanCP

8:30 am on Dec 25, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Constantly browse the web, never found this until this week. Any idea on how to turn it off?

I found turning lots of stuff like Adobe Flash, Javascript etc helps. No problems in FF, I see AdSense ads but no videos, particularly videos on news sites. If I want to watch the news I'll turn on the TV, if I want to read the news at my leisure, I go to my daily favourite list of news sites.

IE 11 which I only use for Google Search, produces lots of nagging though.