@cartertemm I at least understand the motive for ads... (not that I'd ever tolerate them if they *did* manage to sneak past my ad blockers). But I don't understand the motive or idea for all the auto-playing muted videos.
Go to Huffington Post (as just one easy example site) and click on any article you'd like. There's the text you wanna read, right under a muted video at the top that'll play (and move on through a playlist or random shuffle of more videos) while you're reading.
You'll probably have scrolled down to bring the first line of text to the top of the screen of course so you won't *see* them playing, but there will be videos playing at the top of every article you read on #HuffPost.
I just don't get it. At all. That's just dumb.
It costs them money, it drives up hosting costs. It requires a ton of bandwidth that they're wasting.
There's gotta be something going on here that I just don't get -- some motive that makes this make sense, 'cause it's *most* news pages that are doing this now.
Why are they wasting so much bandwidth (theirs and mine)?
Via #RawStory @ 10:01pm ET May 16, 2026
#Trump #ballroom funding hits a major obstacle as #SenateRepublicans prepare to vote
The Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday night that the #GOP majority cannot include $1 billion for the proposed #WhiteHouse ballroom in their bill funding #Immigration enforcement under the strict rules for #reconciliation bills, which could save them from a politically unpalatable vote, reported #HuffPost.
President Donald Trump's ballroom project hit a procedural hurdle that may give Senate Republicans the cover they wanted.The Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday night that the GOP majority cannot include $1 billion for the proposed White House ballroom in their bill funding immigration enforcemen...
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#JBPritzker said he noticed the change since "day one" of the 2024 presidential campaign
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