NASA astronauts hold their own Summer Olympics in space (video)

[Admin]

NASA astronauts held their own mini-Olympics on the International Space Station to mark the start of the Summer Games here on Earth.

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[OldDogZeroOne]

NASA astronauts hold their own Summer Olympics in space (video)​

Once again, an article is posted claiming "video" and no link to said video can be found in the article as published. Way to go Space.com...not!

 

[shaines]

NASA astronauts hold their own Summer Olympics in space (video)​

Once again, an article is posted claiming "video" and no link to said video can be found in the article as published. Way to go Space.com...not!

The videos on the site will play normally if you can disable your adblocker for the site. If you'd prefer not to disable it, just understand that means being unable to watch videos via our site.

 

[Unclear Engineer]

I suggest that your video policy needs some rethinking and revision.

I don't have ad blockers operating, so I can see the videos. But, they are running as soon as I open the article and they are showing ads, so I generally do not stop to watch them as I scroll past reading the text. Once they finish running, it is not obvious how to get back to the beginning to watch the intended content. (Hint, the easiest way is to close and reopen the article.) So, when you scroll back and see a black box, it just looks like another one of those crashed ad boxes that litter so much of our screen space these days. Many people probably do not even know that those windows have content related to the article.

And , with 2 long ads preceding every video, the content of the video is often shorter than the total for the ads.

And, long videos seem to have ads inserted into the middle of them, too.

As a result, I rarely watch the videos on this site. Which means you are past the point of diminishing returns on adding ads to your videos.

But, unless a moderator here tapes this post to a brick and throws it through the window of the editor's office, the people making those decisions probably have no idea how badly they are performing.

 

[shaines]

Our Editorial teams have absolutely no involvement with our advertisers. Since Space is owned by a company called Future, they use the same advertising systems used by our other Future sites.

When specific ads are blocking content, or cannot be closed, you can report those ads to us by sharing the link to the story that had the ad and giving a description of what the ad was for. Once we can track down the problematic ad, we can get it blocked from all our sites.

Just feel free to email about bad ads to community@futurenet.com and our team will get that over to the folks who manage our advertisers.

 

[Classical Motion]

I use win 11 and FF and it’s ad blockers. I get a blank video screen with a blue link in it. I hit that link and get the video. Never have seen ads. Straight to the video.

Only twice have I not found a link in the blank video screen. The link says click here for more space com videos. But it goes to the referenced video.

If that helps any. If I had to dittle with my ad blocker, I would just ignore articles with videos. Other sites and articles have the same videos.

Lot’s of publishing today is just copy, re-arrange and paste. Sometimes even the same ads.

Take any article title. Do a search. Review the first dozen. See anything familiar?