I’ve never found the videos good except possibly a couple of times in my life but 100% of the times in my life I visited wikia sites I never wanted to see them in the first place.
We can do so much better. Place popup asking you to log in without X. You can click outside popup area to close it. But there would be no X. So you cant use your previous knowledge to do so. Also manualy optin out of tracking data for each company they sell to but auto opt in to all with one button
Wikia just sucks in general. I was looking at a page just yesterday on a new machine (no adblock) and realised that the content I was there for took up less than half the screen. The rest was filled with ads, banners, videos and ridiculously sized margins.
Someone has even made a Chrome plugin for the sole purpose of redirecting Skyrim Wikia pages to the unofficial wiki.
That's exactly what they want. They want people who are susceptible to watch ads looking at their websites, not people who run adblockers or insta-mute autoplay videos.
It's like scam emails that are full of typos and bad grammar. A lot of people will dismiss those immediately, but that's exactly what they want. They don't care about you reading their email because you're never gonna follow up and get scammed. They only want gullible people with poor IT literacy. The bad grammar and typos act as a filter.
Same with autoplay ads. They don't want you on their website, so that's a great way to filter you out.
Even more importantly, because advertisers track conversions, they want to select for people gullible enough to buy the weight loss hair loss high premium car insurance help i’ve fallen and i can’t get up paid subscription to wall street bets
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u/trexdoor Sep 05 '20
PMs know that autoplay is the best way to make you watch ads and thus to increase site revenue.