Petition: Turn Off Autoplay on the Videos!!!

Turn off the auto play please.

Neil wrote:

Yeah, sucks. I've actually skipped out of the site a number of times just to escape that crap.

I agree, and even when I'm on LR I spend less time on it. I have a hard time seeing how LR benefits from it.

Positive Contribution says away with auto-tune!

I like autoplay. I enjoy the videos and it makes things more convenient.

Maybe you should post a non-autoplay running forum?

I agree. Shut it off!!!!!

Neil wrote:

Yeah, sucks. I've actually skipped out of the site a number of times just to escape that crap.

I agree. I have left the sight on numerous occasions because it drives me crazy.

Ghostery extension can turn them off on the Chrome browser. I didn't want to do it so that the BroJos could get their $$$'s but they weren't able to fix it, hence the defensive action.

I have ad-block on my personal laptop but I have a work laptop that we are not able to install any software on it. I've heard that "2,1 *guns goes off* well you notice there the personal stopwatches have uh been clicked and of course thats usual" over 1000 times and I swear to god I have no idea what the ad is for.

the irony is that when i clicked on this thread my first autoplay video on here in a week started

Wejo or Rojo... care to chime in? Do you have adblock yourselves?

To be clear, we would all probably watch the videos all the time anyways. It's just annoying that they play on every single page that is loaded. It makes everything on the site move slower, and if we do use adblock, you lose the revenue and we can't watch the videos when we would like.

Please turn off autoplay!

I agree

Bump

Working Stiff wrote:

Please! I'm losing it here!

If you agree, please say so. Maybe Letsrun.com will listen and give us the option to play the videos if we would like or be left alone otherwise.

+1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There was a time that hitting mute on the autolay ads kept them muted....nope, it was changed so that same god damned ad to autoplay on every page you visit. I can understand every every new visit to the site or on the home page only but every freakin click you get that fukitn autoplay ad.

I can barely look at letsrun at work because of the videos. I have to quickly close my browser after the unwanted sound and video play because I am afraid someone is going to walk by my office. And I can't install ad blocker because our IT department restricts any type of downloads on our computers.

No more autoplay please. Ew.

Working Stiff wrote:

Wejo or Rojo... care to chime in? Do you have adblock yourselves?

To be clear, we would all probably watch the videos all the time anyways. It's just annoying that they play on every single page that is loaded. It makes everything on the site move slower, and if we do use adblock, you lose the revenue and we can't watch the videos when we would like.

Please turn off autoplay!

Lol, you really think they give a damn? They've had a few days.

Get Firefox and adblock. Do yourself a favor.

Personally I would like even more obtrusive ads because they help block out all the shit on the message boards

I'd be interested to see the brojos cost/benefit analysis on the auto play.

I assume:

1. autoplay gets them a higher $ for impressions/eyeballs

2. a lot of companies won't let folks install adblocker, and a lot of folks use LRC at work

3. the more users they irritate with auto play, the higher the adblock rate on LRC home computers

4. increase in home adblocker use impacts the brojos via a decrease in revenue for both the click through on static ads, and lower impressions on all ads.

Thus, 1) the rate of pay for impressions on auto play ads must exceed the pay for the combined impressions/click through/commission on purchases for static ads, and 2) there are enough folks using LRC at work and increasing the ad revenue that it makes it worth their while to lose the ad revenue from viewers at home.

This assumption may be faulty though, as based on the number of threads about auto play, home adblocker utilization may be lower than I would estimate, and thus the revenue from home viewers is not substantially impacted.

I agree with the posters who don't mind the static ads. Its true, every now and then I'd see an interesting item or sale on a running product advertised, and I'd click through.... in general, it's a free website that I enjoy reading, so I don't mind the ads displaying and the brojos getting some $.

However, the auto play has just gotten so out of control I had to go the adblocker route. I try to be a good internet citizen and "white list" pages from smaller niche sites that I value and I don't mind seeing some ads for... but with the auto play slows down my computer and just in general completely irritates me, I had to stop it.

Anyway, there's an easy solution for non-work computers - so folks complaining at home need to just fix the problem. That might also cause a fiscal impact that would impact the brojos value proposition.