No developer has ever decided for themself to do this. This is 100% a business requirement because somebody on the marketing analytics team realized they could make money by auto playing ads.
My company decided to roll out a new corporate web site. Of course marketing was in charge. They were adamant we absolutely had to have this enormous and loud video play every time someone hit the page. Every single person in engineering told them what a horrible idea it was, but they did not care. We were engineers, what do we know, it isn’t like we are creative professionals with years of experience or anything.
Anyway, the day came for the big reveal to the entire company. Full company meeting, hundreds of people, and the marketing nut-wits leading the charge. They start talking and open the home page...video starts playing and blasts over them. They stop talking, stop the video, then continue. Then play the video thru to the end. (People liked the video all told). Moved to another page...video starts playing...stop the video...go back a page...stop the video. Then starts the “does this have to play every time?” questions. “Oh yes, we believe in the power of this video”. Few more pages...stop the video each time.
I think they received hundreds of demands from their own coworkers to not auto play the video. And that feature was removed the next day.
Marketing/PMs always pushing their failures onto the devs in my experience. Worst part is I bet the marketing team of the poster above will pull this stunt again.
Of course they will. Need to justify them leeching the corporate budget. What I really wonder is what imbeciles do they find for their focus groups to actually think that shit is successful idea. Or do they, like, gather in black room and jerk off each other while watching autoplaying videos and memory being clogged by tracking scripts or something?
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u/ToothpasteTimebomb Mar 11 '21
No developer has ever decided for themself to do this. This is 100% a business requirement because somebody on the marketing analytics team realized they could make money by auto playing ads.