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It seems like there has been a resurgence in a video file with an audio track automatically starting when a website loads.  I see that there are two reasons for this, the first is new video ads, the second is that people think it’s cool.  This is really annoying.  I was checking on a page on the ColdFusion developers journal just to be blasted with some stupid video ad starting up.  I’m listening to a podcast right now!  Sometimes I’m listening to music.  Eitherway, it’s arrogant to think that someone coming to your site isn’t doing anything else but looking at your site.  There should only be one reason that a video file with an audio track or an audio file should start playing right away and that’s when links used to get to the page make it clear that sound is expected.  For adverts, this means NEVER!  Everyone should know by now that marketing on the internet is a conversation because more interesting stuff is just a click away.  When you start to talk at someone without them wanting to talk to you, the best you can hope for is just to be ignored.