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Post#1 » by tski1972 » Tue Jun 18, 2024 11:37 pm

What’s with the auto play videos? These are the absolute worst. Please make it stop.
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Post#2 » by Sofia » Wed Jun 19, 2024 4:32 am

Agreed. Terrible and not needed.
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Post#3 » by Sofia » Thu Jun 27, 2024 2:35 am

Videos are terrible gambling adverts and are slowing the site down
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Post#4 » by XtremeDunkz » Mon Jul 1, 2024 5:55 am

The Ads on this site have become absolutely unbearable lately. I understand you gotta make money but holy **** it needs to tone down or I gotta leave here.

Pop up videos on the top and bottom of the page constantly taking up 75% of my screen. **** off.
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Post#5 » by CR Reina » Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:11 pm

Thank you for the feedback. We made a change in June where the video ad with an anchor at the bottom of the page would only appear on the splash pages and never on pages where there are posts being read or composed. We felt this would make it less intrusive since less time is spent on those pages as you toggle between forums and topics.

We also eliminated multiple ads at the top of the page while also moving the Wiretap news box to the bottom. This makes a particularly big difference on mobile.

We'll continue to try to find ways to make the ad experience less intrusive.
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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#6 » by Prestige » Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:23 pm

I’m getting auto play video ads while browsing the site on mobile. Nothing has changed.
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Post#7 » by Sofia » Sun Dec 1, 2024 9:18 pm

Prestige wrote:I’m getting auto play video ads while browsing the site on mobile. Nothing has changed.

They’re also pinned to the top of the page, not anchored to the bottom
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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#8 » by SkyBill40 » Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:22 pm

The "plays of the day" video is unnecessary and annoying.
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Post#9 » by Sofia » Fri Jan 17, 2025 1:11 am

I don’t even know if the video plays at this point, and just sits in a spinning load circle loop.

No one needs these videos.
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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#10 » by Grits n Gravy » Sat Jun 7, 2025 5:08 am

The site is unusable for those of us on data limited mobile plans. I stopped browsing because video highlights automatically play with no way to stop which eats limited data.
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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#11 » by Bird4Three » Wed Jul 16, 2025 6:31 am

It’s terrible, get rid of it
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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#12 » by SHAQ32 » Sat Jul 26, 2025 8:58 pm

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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#13 » by Dr Positivity » Wed Oct 15, 2025 3:12 pm

Man I hate the videos that spoil a baseball game if you plan to watch them the next day, it just takes one glimpse as the player in the picture is the team that wins.
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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#14 » by Sofia » Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:40 am

The videos that don’t load are still at the top, but now when I scroll past, the alleged video appears as a tile on the screen that stays pinned as I scroll down the page. Just awful.
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Re: Auto play vids 

Post#15 » by Sofia » Thu Jun 25, 2026 10:45 pm

Get rid of of the videos
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