I am getting fucking FED UP!!!

[Archae]

With web sites that have that "autoplay" ad feature.

Huffington Post, and now Cracked.com do this, it causes everything to freeze up, and then when the video on autoplay DOES start, it plays erratically, starting and stopping at random.

[Warpy]

1. I'm hoping Firefox comes out with an add on to stop the bastards

For now, Ghostery allows you to block advertisers, beacons and widgets and that gets rid of a lot of them.

[krawhitham]

21. flashblock

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

[shenmue]

2. Yeah, that kills my phone browser

I hate it when that happens.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I hate those with the intesity of a thousand suns.

I'm trying to figure how to make them not happen. Will try Adblock.

[shraby]

4. I'm fed up with all advertising that blinks, wriggles, flashes, and has

moving pictures. They use too much computer power.
If they want to advertise on the net, it should be nice well-behaved banners.

[Archae]

6. Here on DU I keeps seeing the ad with the old lady...

Wagging a finger in my face.

There are just too many ads, period.

[alp227]

9. Well, with Internet economics, it's either annoying ads or a pay-per-view fee. nt

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Huffpost is unbearable with autoplay video.

I don't understand the purpose of video that basically says the same thing as the article on the same page.

[RebelOne]

7. Glad to know that others have the same problems.

I have been thinking it was my computer. Sometimes my computer freezes up, and I have to force quit and then restart it.

[Swede Atlanta]

8. I share your frustration.........

I would completely agree it needs to not cause your computer to freeze up or not respond to user commands.

On the other hand their content is being made available to you at no charge. Their only way to pay for the content is by luring advertisers. I suspect advertisers are becoming more demanding about ensuring visitors to the website actually see their ad.

It is completely annoying but I guess I have accepted it as the price for access to free content. I have to listen to the ads on my car radio and on my commercial television shows so I have accepted this.

But they need to be sure that it doesn't take control/lock up your computer or make it so you cannot use the mute or stop buttons. That would be akin to an advertiser disabling the ability to change the radio or tv station or mute your radio or tv.

[MohRokTah]

10. Ads or paywalls, the internet ain't free.

Sadly, once we lose internet neutrality it's goign to get even more expensive.

[Electric Monk]

11. Use FireFox with AdBlockPlus and Ghostery. It cleans up almost all the crap you're complaining about

It makes surfing a much nicer experience.

[SidDithers]

12. I swear by AdBlockPlus...

Cracked is one of my favourites sites.



Sid

[Archae]

15. Thanks a million, installed it, have it running.

It works beautifully.

[Dr. Strange]

13. I switched the "Shockwave Flash" addon to "Ask to Activate."

You have to do an extra click when you want to play videos, but at least you don't have video ads automatically starting and slowing down or screwing up webpages.

[Initech]

14. I have ads on my damn voice mail now.

There is seriously a special place in hell for the guy who came up with this idea.

[betterdemsonly]

16. Use flashblock and

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adblock plus. Configure flashblock to block html5 and silverlight as well. Noscript also gets rid of most of it. These are addons for Firefox.

[GoneFishin]

17. I don't click any HuffPo links. I hover and check first. That site is such a pig, at least on all my

PCs. I won't go to that site because I don't have all day for it to load.

[laundry_queen]

18. DITTO! sorry for yelling, but geez, do I ever hate that site now. nt

[rrneck]

19. I've about given up on Cracked.

They used to be good, but I spend more time beating back the banners than reading the articles.

[Jasana]

20. I don't go to those sites anymore and...

I make sure to send them an email telling them why. It's too bad really. HuffPo I could do without but I really liked Cracked when I needed to take a break.