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WarJay77
(Troper Knight)
1st Apr, 2019 11:15:31 PM
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I use uBlock Origin with my browser, and the popups here requested that I whitelist the site. Given that my account here is years old and I do find the place valuable, I initially felt that whitelisting it was only the honourable thing to do.
However, one of the first ads that was loaded, included auto-playing video, WITH SOUND. As someone who considers my bandwidth valuable, I've always considered automatically starting video to be extremely bad practice; but this was compounded by the additional intrusion of audio. It is bad enough in my mind for ads to be animated to the point where my attention is drawn away from the text; but full, automatically playing video is too far.
I have re-enabled uBlock for the tvtropes.org domain, and as far as I am concerned, whoever is responsible for ads on this site, only has themselves to blame. Make your ads less intrusive, and I will whitelist the site again; but not until.