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I've only noticed it lately, but Edge on my laptop shows that VGChartz keeps on making videos play in whatever tab I opened it on. This doesn't happen on my phone, so I'm assuming this is run with Flash.

It makes my laptop lag while typing, so please consider removing them and replacing these ads with something lighter on the bandwidth and processor. And not using Flash.



 
I WON A BET AGAINST AZUREN! WOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

:3

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I can't see any ads ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ RIOT ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ



Teeqoz said:
I can't see any ads ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ RIOT ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ

Teeqoz, you bad bad boy, you!

ioi is working hard to support this site just off ad money, you know!

Don't you know that those images take up lots of bandwidth...but they're hosted elsewhere, uh

Don't you know that the mods here---what's that? They do it for free? uh

Don't you know that the sales numbers here are worked hard on? Wait, you don't really go here for them? uh

Shoot.



 
I WON A BET AGAINST AZUREN! WOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

:3

Happens on my phone quite a bit, too. Just when it seemed the site couldn't be any worse on mobile.



Site is just terrible on mobile. Autoplay videos, 3rd rate advertisements and get pop up messages of trying to install something.



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I've never seen any Autoplay Video ads on VGC. Guess I'm lucky :P.



Send a Friend Request On PSN :P

Okay, I'm not seeing any response to them, and I'm going to bump this thread to see if action is going to be taken.



 
I WON A BET AGAINST AZUREN! WOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

:3

I generally use uBlock Origin to block ads, but when I want to support a site, I turn that off for the site permantenly. There's one criterion though: the ads must not be invasive. Unfortunately VGChartz does not fulfill that criterion. So yeah, I block ads on VGChartz but if they were reasonable, I'd like to allow ads here to support the site. As it is, VGChartz is a prime example of sites because of which I block ads.



I still get autoplay videos from time to time on windows (not on mac), all it makes me want to do is download ad block.

If it wasn't annoying, i wouldnt have done that.



Making an indie game : Dead of Day!

Okay, update time.

I've also noticed that these videos play on my phone, and they're probably a large part of the reason behind my phone battery getting drained hard (~20% or so per hour, which is worse than even Skype).

Please, do something about it. I'm lucky this site doesn't crash like Siliconera or Zerohedge do on my phone.



 
I WON A BET AGAINST AZUREN! WOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

:3