According to this TechCrunch article, Chrome will begin auto pausing all flash videos on page load now, starting in September. (My birthday is in September, its almost like Google knew what I wanted for my birthday)
It sends me in to a rage, when a page loads an article and I scroll down to read it and then I am blasted with some stupid fucking auto play flash video at the top of the page, that I have to scroll back to the top so quickly, as if I were going to miss the last train home for the night, only to try and click on the horrible one-size-fits-all flash player interface pause or stop or mute button. Then if it doesn’t work, I have to hit the stupid hot key to mute all audio because its normally at a volume of YOU’RE-GOING-TO-BE-DEAF-IN-5-SECONDS. Then after I finally stop the music, I need to lift my headphones away from my ears because I need to try and adjust my hearing back to some type of normal level, because what ever horrible news site or jo-blo stupid dickhead blog decided it was OK to automatically assault my innocent ears with their hate.
This apparently is going to directly affect ad revenue architecture for flash ads, so you can pretty much bet that these shit head advertisers and agencies will come up with another way to assault you video live video. I am predicting the 10 second delay with light box popup with a video player inside of it. Its going to mind fuck me even more. I’ll load the page up and start reading on my merry way and then I will be ninja assaulted and instead of me having to rush to find it, it will be pre-loaded and auto play in the popup and I’ll have to close it before the script has a chance to null the escape key.
I hate on page advertising these days. Back in the day it was simple. Ad’s would flash, look fake, told me my dick could be 9″ longer than it is now and were too good to be true and that was it. You ignored them. Not today, nope, AUTO ADVERTISING ASSAULT MISSION IS A GO. JFC.
Good for you Google. You are the knight that the internet DOES need right now and you’re going to give it to us. Thank you.
