The web is in a dark place, as I plan to examine in the next several columns. If you need proof, look no further than autoplay videos, the first example. You are probably familiar with this horrendous ...
Publishers know the audience hates it, but they also know it means guaranteed views so they do it anyway The topic is auto-play video. According to fresh data from advertising intelligence company ...
Universally speaking, autoplay videos are annoying. On social media, they can suck you in, and the next thing you know, you’ve spent an hour scrolling through videos. On websites, they get in the way, ...
Back in December, I was scrolling around on my computer, and I realized just how often there were auto-play video ads and content launched on the pages I was visiting. Auto-play video by itself is not ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is testing videos that play automatically on mobile versions of its service, setting the stage to turn the 1.15 billion-member social network into an ...
Netflix finally lets you turn off annoying autoplay previews: Here’s how to disable them The video streaming giant seems to have finally realized it's pissing too many people off. A calmer, quieter ...