“Secrecy with a shooting script is de rigeur”

Secrecy with a shooting script is de rigeur for tentpole films like this, but it seems like a bit of an extreme measure for a character as important to the franchise as the Winter Soldier

No. Don’t go there. Security practices are emphatically not personal. You get denied access to information that you don’t need…

Winter Soldier is Coming

To be fair, it did work really fucking well for Iron Man 1... That movie is some kind of miracle given the production issues and the burden of launching Marvel Studios.

A little birdie told me that Marvel (at least the Netflix side of things) has stopped giving crews any type of scene information on their their daily call sheets due to all the recent Game of Thrones leaks. I wouldn’t be suprised if this is just a company wide policy that extends to scripts.

Maleficent.

Much better than Disney’s first idea to strap the actors into chairs and reprogram them to forget after every scene.

Of all the complaints about Age of Ultron, I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone call it “boring.” What a weird thing to complain about.

Heh. “One of the largest web browsers is going to disable one of our revenue streams! Here’s why you should be afraid...”

Right now I’m just using something called Disable HTML5 Autoplay. It seems to work fine.

This article reeks of your advertising department exercising unconscionable control over editorial. Auto-play video is a cancer to the internet and ANY step to stamp it out is a welcome one. I don’t give a shit about any other opinion, particularly not bought and paid for FUD like this.

Unfortunately, the company’s adblocking effort gets far more problematic, as our greatest concern is now coming to fruition:

I can’t imagine this is an unbiased article since gizmodo and its family of sites all use those GARBAGE ads that Google is against/blocking. I’m not sad that you’ll have to find advertisers that don’t do obnoxious shit like this.

It’s not much better when you’re reading the desktop version and all of a sudden the paragraph you were reading scrolls up above the top of the browser window because the auto-play video that you scrolled past auto-hid when it was done playing......

No they’re so great. I love how it counts downs from 5, but doesn’t actually know how long 5 seconds actually is and fuck it, I’m staring at this Miller ad for 9 seconds. It’s GREAT.

Thanks to Gizmodo and its sister sites I’ve already had to install an HTML5 video blocker so I won’t be seeing much of a change. Stop doing obnoxious shit like that and maybe I can put these sites on my whitelist like they used to be.

Blocking annoying ads is only part of the equation. The more problematic, dangerous aspect is “malvertising”, where ads can actually infect your computer with malware (including ransomware). That’s really my main motivation for using an ad blocker. And if Google can actually force ad networks into increasing their…

This is a good change. Nobody likes a shill, or your shitty taboola ads. I will disable my content blockers on this site when y’all prove you can be trusted to not FUCK your content with autoplay ads, extremely long commercials for extremely short videos, and heinously interrupting in-line ads. In short, never,…

So install an ad blocker and whitelist the sites you visit regularly. If any of them display the kinds of ads you don’t like, remove them from your whitelist.

I don’t have ad-blockers on my browsers, because I know it hurts the sites I like and that it’s a small price to pay to support my favorite sites.