@ nerds hearing mysterious music on your dash

sodomydog:

sodomydog:

It’s your adblock software not completely blocking some ads that include autoplay content.

First off, Tumblr isn’t going to care, because Yahoo wants to make some money off this sinkhole of a site, and more and more intrusive ads are the way to do it, especially if we’re all trying to block them anyway.

However, running the site WITH adblock disabled, I could see the ads, but not mute them (pausing/muting went away if I scrolled up or down), so I’m going to say they’re being fucks anyway and don’t deserve the advertising money if they’re going to assault me with unwanted autoplay sound that I can’t stop.

Open up your ad blocker, create a custom filter for:

*.tubemogul.com*

and that should stop it.  Has worked for me so far, but I literally just did this 10 minutes ago so I don’t know if it’s a complete or correct solution.  If anyone’s a bigger nerd about adblock filtering or wants to dig for other sources for the autoplay ads, hit me up.

EDIT:  For those of you getting here from the mass-reblogs!

I’ve already posted an ammendment to this, but the above URL isn’t enough, you also need to add:

*cdn.yimg.com/gemini* 

and if they change that,

*cdn.yimg.com*

though, the latter may cause some bullshit since it’s going to block ANYTHING from yahoo’s CDN.

Again, I’m not an expert with adblock’s filters, so there’s probably a more elegant way to do this, but I just wanted this shit to go away.  I also feel like this is going to become an arms race, and no one filter rule or simple set of rules is going to hold out for long.  Sorry!

More people are reblogging this than I expected, so I’m going to be making edits to the original post when I find out anything new, until it settles down or better/more info starts going around.

Again, if anyone has a more elegant solution, hit me up and I’ll add it to the original post!