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The web is full of third-party scripts. Sites use them for ads, analytics, retargeting, and more. But this isn’t always the whole story. Scripts are unpredictable, they execute code, but you don’t know what this code actually does. With Taboola’s advertising video player solution, we struggle with 3rd party scripts daily. Working with different advertisers has exposed us to a variety of malicious behavior: sound violations, auto scroll and change page DOM are just some of them. In this post we’ll take a closer look at how we detect sound violations. Steer clear of 3rd party script risks A sound violation is a state in which the video plays sound without user interaction. Several advertisers do this, to ensure that the user will notice their ads. We struggled with this often and received lots of complaints from publishers. Sound violations should be prevented by the video player, but […]