User blog comment:Adam Carey/Making Ads Better: What We've Done So Far/@comment-970089-20170119005601

I just want to make one statement about video ads.

I haven't seen this on Fandom, yet... but if you have an auto playing ad that makes noise, I consider that to be the height of rudeness. Ads that do this are no different to someone walking through my front door uninvited - they're intruding in a way that I haven't invited you to.

Playing a video silently isn't exactly acceptable (My baaaaandwith, my beautiful bandwith....), but at least its just an image I can ignore. When my computer starts making noise distracting me, thats a problem - especially if its night, I'm trying to keep quiet, and I havent realised that my volume is up.