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Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?

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Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?

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Do paid videos (like GoT and BrBa) have these ads?

Since when can you see GoT on YouTube?

http://www.youtube.com/show/game-of-thrones

Don't know since when, or if it is just an ad for a redirect to HBO Go that is cleverly mocked up as a video before you try to pay for it.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?

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https://adblockplus.org/ https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

Personally, while I'm almost frustrated enough with YouTube ads to use an ad blocker, I'm hesitant to do so because the authors of the videos I watch are often precisely the kind of people I want to support, and I've heard YouTube is hard enough to depend on for income without people blocking ads. I'd love to have an option to directly pay money instead, but I doubt it'll ever happen. Twitch.tv is similar but conside…

I would guess most full time producers would have swag shops where you can spend money on them.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?

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i have had a lot of problems with Ads. Ads used to be ok and not as bad as they are now. They are as bad as those pop ads that used to show up on websites. But no matter what argument is raised as to how good or bad ads are I will always use an Adblocker. And Yes Google+ has gone Fanatical with the Ads ever since they bought out YouTube and I am fed up with it.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The content creator might get paid when you click, or might get paid per impression. The the creator is absolutely not paid is when you click Skip. Click skip when you don't like the ad; It drives up the price for a successful watch, because ads that get skipped don't get played. There's an ecosystem, it can be played, but it has the proper knobs and controls to combat the playing.

Click skip when you don't like the ad I do, that's why I click it every time.

That would be gould if there weren't ads that last 20 seconds or 30seconds long without a skip feature which is what I have had to deal with and was forced to use Adblocker Plus. Now I don't have to see such stupid ads.

1. Presidential Smear Campaigns (I hate those because it really is a matter of choice for the person voting isn't it...Who cares who did what let the voter decide)

2. Movies I don't care to see (Reality TV Movies and those numerous remakes).

And anyothers I hate.

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