# Auto-playing video ads in threads, again.

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**Created:** [October 19, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-playing-video-ads-in-threads-again/600192 "2011-10-19T21:50:43Z")\
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Anyone have any idea what this ad is about or who it’s for?

We can’t do anything about it if we can’t identify the source.

Also … are you touching the ad in any way? (That might include accidentally mousing over it.) Those are supposed to be okay; it’s the ones that automatically start playing regardless of what you do that aren’t supposed to be happening here.

Finally … where are you? Ads are targeted to specific places, so that sometimes helps us sort out just what’s going on. For example, the Veet ad mentioned above only played in Europe, I think, and that made it easier to track it down.

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