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Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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I'm guessing that he's not referring to audio ads, but rather to news sites that have a video and a story, but can sometimes take so long to load the video that you've read the story and moved on, or to the random sites that have the completely unrelated espn auto-play video in the sidebar.  I personally installed an add-on that makes you have to click on a flash object solely for these annoyances.... [[Special:Contributions/66.249.85.193|66.249.85.193]] 14:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 
I'm guessing that he's not referring to audio ads, but rather to news sites that have a video and a story, but can sometimes take so long to load the video that you've read the story and moved on, or to the random sites that have the completely unrelated espn auto-play video in the sidebar.  I personally installed an add-on that makes you have to click on a flash object solely for these annoyances.... [[Special:Contributions/66.249.85.193|66.249.85.193]] 14:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
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An alternative situation: I sometimes have the domains youtube.com and ytimg.com blocked by NoScript. Then I allow them to watch something and three or four videos in background tabs start playing... [[Special:Contributions/83.41.36.244|83.41.36.244]] 14:41, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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I would just like to take this moment to say that Explain xkcd's ads are restricted to image files only, and will never play video/sound/flash stuff when you load the page, unlike the site that Cueball currently has open. Davidy²²[talk] 06:59, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

This has to do with those news videos or live streams that pop up without your consent on some unreputable news sites. If you have a slow network and a lot of tabs, they're almost impossible to find. 66.87.66.186 13:47, 21 October 2013 (UTC)


This comic is so 2005; I'm guessing Randal is not using adblockplus (maybe due to a moral enforced by the income from his xkcd.com) 108.168.11.47 13:57, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm guessing that he's not referring to audio ads, but rather to news sites that have a video and a story, but can sometimes take so long to load the video that you've read the story and moved on, or to the random sites that have the completely unrelated espn auto-play video in the sidebar. I personally installed an add-on that makes you have to click on a flash object solely for these annoyances.... 66.249.85.193 14:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

An alternative situation: I sometimes have the domains youtube.com and ytimg.com blocked by NoScript. Then I allow them to watch something and three or four videos in background tabs start playing... 83.41.36.244 14:41, 21 October 2013 (UTC)