this isn't a sudden issue (it started after the site overhaul), but it has gotten worse recently imo. whenever I read an article etc.... on the bottom right side of the screen there will be a mini video ad playing, most of the time these are muted by default but recently they have been unmuting automatically when im watching a trailer or other gamespot video; forcing me to pause my video and hunt down whatever tab has the unmuted ad. sometimes they have the option to mute, other times they don't give any speaker icon with mouse over. And whenever these ad spaces cycle to a different ad there is a chance it could unmute again. the ads themselves are also crashing by grey circle of death, causing performance issues with whatever gamespot video im watching and sometimes even GCOD the video as well.
for those unfamiliar with GCOD: http://blogs.adobe.com/dekesmith/2012/06/07/what-is-the-gray-circle-with-an-exclamation-mark-or-bang/
I don't have this problem on other sites, im using the latest version of internet explorer and flash.
my specs are:
win 7 64bit
i5 2500k
8gb ram 1600 (this should be plenty, im not running more than 5-8 gamespot browser tabs at once)
gtx580 1.5gb
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