I wonder how long it will take before there's an actual YouTube competitor (and yea, that's not Vimeo or Vidme). Something quick and easy like imgur for video would be fantastic. That being said, this is an interesting move. Is YouTube profitable yet?
YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads
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#12They would have been more tolerable if there were more variety to the ads. For the last few days every YouTube video I've watched has been prefixed with the same unskippable ad, a 30-second spot for Lucky Charms cereal that wants so badly for you to think it's an episode of Adventure Time that you can smell the flop sweat from across the room.
If you're going to force me to watch the same ad over and over, at least make it an ad that doesn't make me want to claw my eyeballs out with a rusty razor blade.
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#13YouTube ads wouldn't bug me nearly as much if there was some more variety. I must have seen the same stupid MileIQ ad a thousand times by now. Surely they have more content available than this?
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#14I'm so glad I have youtube red through my google music subscription, unskippable 30 second ads sound just dreadful.
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#15This article made me realize how heavily I rely on uBlock Origin. I haven't thought about youtube ads in a long time.
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#16YouTube ads wouldn't bug me nearly as much if there was some more variety. I must have seen the same stupid MileIQ ad a thousand times by now. Surely they have more content available than this?
Lol, MileIQ is probably bidding the most on your demographic.
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#17I wish fixyt.com was still working, but a quick /watch?v=SLUG_ID appending to it still saves the day on videos-with-ads I just cannot bare.
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#18the worst offenders are the 30 second horror film trailers. nope.
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#19This article made me realize how heavily I rely on uBlock Origin. I haven't thought about youtube ads in a long time.
I kind of wish there was a way to unblock specific YouTube users from uBlock. I have a handful of entertainers that I like enough to intentionally support them by watching ads, yet I've found no simple way to do that without manually disabling uBlock for a specific video and re-enabling it afterwards.
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#20> Ads shorter than 30-seconds, including the 20-second spots, can be made unskippable.
uBlock Origin will continue to serve me well.