I've turned off adblocker to support the site, but this is a nuisance. They seem to have only appeared this morning.
Video ads autoplaying?
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I'm not knocking AK since they are likely at the mercy of whatever the ad networks send their way. I would even bet there is a setting which would allow them to turn those off.
But, I will say that elsewhere on the Internetz, I'm strongly opposed to any video ads, especially if they auto-play. It is not so much for the nuisance factor (which they are--I don't need an ad blaring at me full blast when everyone else in the house is sleeping). The advertisers, and the corporate site owners that use them, are being disrespectful to anyone who visits a site on a mobile device. Why should I pay, and/or eat up my billable bandwidth, to serve their advertising? Text ads with a small image can use very little bandwidth; video in any form eats up a lot. And I can say from experience that even if sites claim to detect mobile devices, they fail to do so, most of the time.
I'm just waiting for a class action to go after those sites and the advertisers. I see it the same as fax machine spam--advertisers are pushing the cost burden of delivering the video ads onto the unfortunate end user. With fax machines, it was due to the supplies used (the paper, the toner, etc.); with mobile data, it's the bandwidth being eaten up that visitors have to pay for.
But, I will say that elsewhere on the Internetz, I'm strongly opposed to any video ads, especially if they auto-play. It is not so much for the nuisance factor (which they are--I don't need an ad blaring at me full blast when everyone else in the house is sleeping). The advertisers, and the corporate site owners that use them, are being disrespectful to anyone who visits a site on a mobile device. Why should I pay, and/or eat up my billable bandwidth, to serve their advertising? Text ads with a small image can use very little bandwidth; video in any form eats up a lot. And I can say from experience that even if sites claim to detect mobile devices, they fail to do so, most of the time.
I'm just waiting for a class action to go after those sites and the advertisers. I see it the same as fax machine spam--advertisers are pushing the cost burden of delivering the video ads onto the unfortunate end user. With fax machines, it was due to the supplies used (the paper, the toner, etc.); with mobile data, it's the bandwidth being eaten up that visitors have to pay for.
stereofanboy
Addicted Member
I make it a policy to never do business with a company whose advertising efforts have seriously irritated or inconvenienced me. If enough people saw things my way, that **** would stop.
loopstick
Lunatic Member
I don't mind the little ads that pop-up inside a video for a few seconds. That's how YouTube makes money and more power to them - they provide a great service. The reason a lot of great copyrighted material is available on YouTube is the copyright owners get to monetize the videos and make money off of them. It's all legal and good. OTOH I HATE pre-roll ads and leave the site immediately then come right back and they usually skip the pre-roll and get right to the video. I have AdBlock but I can still see all the AK banner ads and that's cool. If I go to a site (news media sites usually) and they tell me I must turn off AdBlock I'm like sayonara - I'll go somewhere else.
That's what was happening yesterday - unstoppable video ads were popping up in the banners. Since the whole thing wasn't being displayed, and they're gone now, it must have been some sort of a glitch.
stereofanboy said:
Yes well remember most of these sites JUST SERVE ADs,they do not have control what comes in!!!!!
Most admins I know DO NOT LIKE AUDIO/VIDEO ads either and will block the ad from appearing IF ITS REPORTED to them.....
Its not easy to control what comes in but if you are made aware of it,they can be blocked.....
They're baaaaaaaack.
Happened again a few minutes ago.
Beatnik
What's this ?
I get these constant loading black rectangles here at work and at home on Google Chrome ? Got this link I from it I think ?
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Descartridge
Stereos been berry, berry good to me!
Aleve
Extremely bad today...
loopstick
Lunatic Member
OK - I misunderstood the OP. I thought it was about ads popping up in embedded videos that AK'ers post - usually in the Music forum. You're talking about ads (video) that autoplay when you land on the AK site. I have not experienced that - maybe cuz I use AdBlock. I still see the animated "banner" ads that look like little movie theater marquees.
IFAIK most ad blocking is directed at known ad servers - it doesn't attack ads that "belong" to the site - so if sites would just spread tasteful non-annoying "local-sourced" ads around their pages like print newspapers did there probably wouldn't be this contest between ad servers and ad blockers - IMHO. In fact when I had dial-up I used to watch the downloading in the status bar so I could block ad URL's myself - and IIRC the AK banner stuff comes from right within the AK domain. Therefore AdBlock is not wired to block AK banner ads - which is a good thing.
MaxxVolume
Lunatic Member
For the last couple of days, I have been getting the audio portion ONLY of ads on this forum, seems to be when my cursor is anywhere in the middle of the page being viewed. Anybody else getting this ?
OK - I misunderstood the OP. I thought it was about ads popping up in embedded videos that AK'ers post - usually in the Music forum. You're talking about ads (video) that autoplay when you land on the AK site. I have not experienced that - maybe cuz I use AdBlock. I still see the animated "banner" ads that look like little movie theater marquees.
IFAIK most ad blocking is directed at known ad servers - it doesn't attack ads that "belong" to the site - so if sites would just spread tasteful non-annoying "local-sourced" ads around their pages like print newspapers did there probably wouldn't be this contest between ad servers and ad blockers - IMHO. In fact when I had dial-up I used to watch the downloading in the status bar so I could block ad URL's myself - and IIRC the AK banner stuff comes from right within the AK domain. Therefore AdBlock is not wired to block AK banner ads - which is a good thing.
I turned off AdBlock for AK so they could get the page view revenue for the server project. The video ads in question pop up in the banner ads at the top and bottom of the pages. They're not formatted to fit a banner, so it's some sort of failure at the company that maintains and updates the banners.
