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Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads (www.androidauthority.com)
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Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through once.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I bought CCwGTV when it first came out, I don't recall the adbar at the top ever not being present.

It just was strictly ads for TV shows / movies for the first while and "external" ads for stuff like mcdonalds only showed up later.

But I'm pretty sure I remember ads for Black Widow on it front and center, and that was only 5? 6? months after it came out. (The ads were showing up 1-2 months prior to theatrical release iirc?)

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Oh, yeah innthat case I agree.

    Either way the mechanic of "you have to move the cursor to purposefully hover on the ad, abd then wait multiple seconds, and then not click anything" opt in behavior on the ads has lnt changed since day one.

    So seeing news articles pretending this is anything new at all really just goes to show how shit "journalism" has gotten over the years. Literally like, 5s of looking this up and you'll find out this isn't anything new.

    SMH

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