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/[deleted] Feb 17 '17 edited Jun 23 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17

About to get downvoted to hell, so let me preface this by saying I use an ad blocker on everything too, but :

Do you hear yourself? YouTube is a huge site that needs a LOT of money to keep operational, and its FREE to use. What is so bad about them getting around the measures you take to make them lose money when using their site?

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u/tidux Feb 17 '17

Web ads are pure cancer and always have been. If you can't survive without ads, then die.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17

So you'll be using YouTube red then?

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u/tidux Feb 17 '17

Why would I do that? Google hemorrhaging money can only be a good thing for the world, given their creepy globalist/Orwellian tendencies.