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[–] ddkman@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think ADS were ever the problem. The problem was the ratio. ORIGINALLY adblock plus, when it was a relevant adblocker had an option to allow less obtrusive ads to show. The rules they set for themselves there was pretty reasonable.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I used that for a while specifically because of that feature. But I switched to uBlock origin when I found out it could block those autoplaying videos as well.