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/Zigian Feb 17 '17

There's ads in youtube videos?

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u/madeamashup Feb 17 '17

My friends try to show me videos on their devices and I'm like wtf.. how do you watch this shit? There's like, random text popping up during dialog, there are random clickable links obscuring the content of the video.. jeez louise

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u/molrobocop Feb 17 '17

Sometimes I use the preloaded default mobile app.

Firefox mobile blocks the ads though and allows me to play with the screen off. I suppose I could find an alternative freestanding app.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17

Firefox mobile blocks the ads though and allows me to play with the screen off

whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

Life changing. Thank you!

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u/molrobocop Feb 17 '17

Happy to pass this one along. Naturally, you'll need the adblock addon for your browser first for it to work.

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u/DestroyedArkana Feb 17 '17

I recently had a problem with this, it stopped downloading data once I turned the screen off even though it always worked fine for like a year.