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skybrianyesterday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Another example of being user-hostile is that they put videos on the front page that autoplay and can't be paused. I will not renew either.


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notsydoniayesterday at 6:25 PM

Agree -they all do it. How do they justify the bounce rate? It's never once been shown to my knowledge that viewers love to have their browsing/reading/knowledge gathering interrupted by a volume-up video playing (usually) an ad.

Is it just so they can tell advertisers X amount of people "viewed" your ad?

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