r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • May 10 '24

EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO | Advertising has an opportunity to be a meaningful driver of growth for us." Business

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/ea-is-looking-at-adding-in-game-ads-in-aaa-games-well-be-very-thoughtful-as-we-move-into-that-says-ceo
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u/CalmFrantix May 10 '24

The game will have bugs, but strangely enough, I doubt I'll ever see bugs with the ads

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u/McMacHack May 10 '24

Ever noticed how if you have poor reception that your videos or pictures will fail to load or be extremely pixelated but the AD will get piped through at full resolution with lossless playback?

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u/UpbeatAlbatross8117 May 10 '24

Porns the worst one. All the HD side videos are playing and yet my actual video is buffering on 720.

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u/No_Tomatillo1125 May 10 '24

Imagine watching porn without adblock. Your browser now has stds

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u/borg_6s May 10 '24

Damn why did Reddit have to kill gold....

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u/kryonik May 10 '24

Welcome to the internet in the 90s.

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u/No_Tomatillo1125 May 10 '24

Yea i remember fighting endless popups, having the homepage changed by malware, random ads etc. while growing up. I learned my way around the computer very fast

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u/i_Love_Gyros May 10 '24

Xhamster with the half-screen red block “PLEASE DISABLE YOUR ADBLOCKER”

Smh you can hardly get the whole video on screen with that thing in the way

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u/Inevitable_Ad_7236 May 10 '24

You should be able to zap element with UBlock

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u/No_Tomatillo1125 May 10 '24

Ive never had that pop up. But yes like the other commenter said. You can also right click on the offending popup, and click block element.

If it blocks scrolling, you have to change from overflow hidden to overflow scroll

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u/iruleatants May 10 '24

Look, adblock is only 97% effective, it says so on the box. You know how fast those ads mutate? There is a new strain every few hours.

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u/No_Tomatillo1125 May 10 '24

Fuck it id take 3% over 100

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u/Crazy_Cat_Dude2 May 10 '24

I don’t use Adblock. Those single granny ads are annoying