While I haven't notice a slow down to my computer I have noticed the vids. The site response lately has been slow at times and don't know if it's these new adds.
What I do know is it reminds me of news links to news sites, and think of, "is it going to happen here?".
You know, most news sites you can't even read what you went to see without a 5 minute load time, 10 popups to dismiss first, vids turning on automatically blasting at you without you doing anything. On top of that you try to read a little strip of writing while the other 85% of the page is flashing at you.
And yes this type of page severely slows down mobile devices and weaker computers.
Is that what AK is going to do to provide FREE membership?