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Ads with full volume? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I just had an ad appear while scrolling through the comment section of a post.

No big deal in itself, but: the ad started to play at volume even though I put my media viewer in auto mute. It's night and I don't wanna wake people up with videos I never even wanted to see and even tho I didn't click anything wrong.

Is this how it should be? Is there an option to disable audio on ads? I have auto mute on enabled for my media viewer; why does this not automatically apply to ads as well?

I get that this app has ads to survive but there's always a nice and a really annoying way to do it and this is definitely on the annoying side for me rn.

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If these annoying ads keep coming back, you could always pay a few dollars for the ads-free version of boost.

I did it and the experience is a lot better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean this stuff does not incentivize me to invest money in this project. Idk if it's a bug but that stuff was really annoying and for no reason.

I do like this app, this is why I made the post, but you can't make me buy the app when I just had bad experience wth it. Makes no sense to me whatsoever. If I buy it, it should be for positive reasons, not negative reasons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you don't name the ad the app creator can't contact his ad provider and change something about it either...

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Because I said I expect that if I mute media then that includes ads. If you think my assumptions are wrong then that makes sense, but what you're saying shouldn't matter for that.