Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads - eviltoast

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.

  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s one thing to advertise a show or an app / service that is in the App Store but another to show actual ads.

    Most of the time it’s this, rarely mcdonalds or Harvey’s has an ad like this you need to hover over for several seconds to play, intentionally, and people turn it into rage bait garbage posts.

    90% of the time it’s just an add for a TV show or movie, and you still have to purposefully hover over it unmoving to start it playing, it’s pretty opt in.