[dassie]

How annoying are those autoplay video, repeatedly page-dragging-down ads on road.cc?  Oh hang on I have the answer…   Extremely!

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[don simon fbpe]

There is a way of changing

There is a way of changing settings, at least in Firefox, that prevents ads from autoplaying. There’s nothing worse (there probably is) than a voice shouting at you from an unknown source that you then have to seek out and turn off.

Here’s one method.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2858421/internet/how-to-stop-autoplay-videos.html

And even the video on that page can’t be disabled.

[StantheVoice]

And we do try to stop them,

And we do try to stop them, we really don’t want them either, but the advertisers (or more precisely – their agencies)  are constantly working to stay one step ahead of us. There have been multiple articles explaining this situation on the site and to keep you aware of our efforts and understanding and there’s a specific page for your to report these annoying intrusions here, so please do report them, we’re as annoyed by them as you are!

 

Thanks for your understanding.

 

[Anonymous]

Trustnav Adblock extension

Trustnav Adblock extension for Chrome. It’s free and it works. Road cc’s inability to stop this now means I see no ads at all on their site – works for me but not for their ‘good’ advertisers.

[madcarew]

I don’t know if it’s because

I don’t know if it’s because I’m in NZ, but I never see any! So, Not annoying at all 🙂

[davel]

Touché
Touché

[dassie]

At least one can choose to

At least one can choose to ignore, boring thread subject topics…

 

 

[davel]

But if it weren’t for them we
But if it weren’t for them we wouldn’t have all the new threads to make that same point, and they are just a joy.

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