Autoplaying video ads are about to invade your Facebook Messenger inbox

Somehow, Facebook is still finding ways to make Facebook Messenger more annoying.

Now, the company plans to bring autoplaying video ads to users Messenger inboxes as soon as Monday, according to a report from Recode.

Ads aren’t new to Messenger, but until now they’ve been limited to static, News Feed-style ads, not the more intrusive autoplaying videos. 

But after more than a year of testing those ads, which have appeared about halfway down in users’ inboxes, the Messenger team reportedly thinks the automatically playing videos won’t be a nuisance. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Autoplaying video ads are about to invade your Facebook Messenger inbox