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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-06-16 21:37:00

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In Defense of Autoplay

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/06/autoplay_videos_facebook_twitter_are_making_them_less_annoying.html

For years the online economy ran largely on banner ads—those flashy, often ugly, typically rectangular, embedded images that surround the content you actually want to see. Mercifully, banner ads are in decline, due less to their ugliness than their inefficacy: Readers quickly learned to ignore them.


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