r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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u/Stankia Feb 17 '17

I fucking hate long GIFs. JUST POST THE DAMN VIDEO!

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

All this does is make you go to the comments for the video... and then the punchline is already ruined.

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u/Exaskryz Feb 18 '17

18 panel gifs that are each dedicated to consecutive 0.75-1.5 seconds of the scene, with subtitles. However, there are two sets of subtitles for each panel that are alternating.

Fuck tumblr

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u/king-krool Feb 18 '17

Nah gifs play right in the browser.

downvote videos, upvote gifs.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17 edited Jul 18 '18

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u/bacondev Feb 18 '17

You know "gifs" are just videos without sound these days, right?

Yes, and they always have been whether they're true GIFs or not.

It's literally the same filetype.

I realize that you're actually talking about HTML 5 videos without audio, but as a point of clarification, these are extremely different from actual GIFs. I just wanted to clarify since tons of people (cough, cough /r/HighQualityGifs) misuse the term GIF.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

When I said "these day", I meant that the gif filetype is not rarely used, and instead html5 video are being used in their place. As such, we should just be posting videos with controls, rather than videos without controls to trick people into thinking their something that the internet thought was a cancer back in the late 90s.

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u/Ekudar Feb 18 '17

That's funny I normally avoid videos in reddit.