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.
When you say it always has worked this way what is your frame of reference regarding time? I haven’t owned a chromecast in about 6 years. However prior to that chromecast had no ads whatsoever so the idea that there are ads at all is shocking to me. It certainly hasn’t always been this way. (I currently use an Apple TV)
I bought the Chromecast with Google TV (older version, not the newer 4k one, which I also own now) when it first cane out.
The home screen hasn’t changed since day 1 when I plugged it in.
It always had an ad at the top, and you always have had to purposefully move the cursor onto the ad itself and not touch anything for multiple seconds before it played.
I owned the OG chromecast and chromecast 2 before that, and you are right, that one didn’t have ads, but it also didn’t have much of anything really.
You are correct, CCwGTV didn’t use to show ads, but in the last 4 years or so they have been testing it and it has become more mainstream
Frogs in boiling water
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?)
Yes, that is correct. The center banner has always been there and it showed Movie and TV show promotions, but 1-2 years after the CCwGTV came out, Google started to experiment with ads: what I consider an ad is the Carl’s Jr. ad that everyone is losing their mind over right now.
I do not consider a Movie or TV show promotion an ad as I like those because it helps me know what is available to watch on different services or what might be playing at the theater. For example, when Oppenheimer came out, Google ran a promotion for it and if you clicked on it you could watch a trailer or pay money to buy it.
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