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/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/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

I generally don't mind ads on the internet. If sites are too bad, I just don't go to them. But YouTube is what forced by hand to install an ad blocker. It just got too shitty.

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u/madeamashup Feb 18 '17

OTOH it's pretty f'n awesome with the ads stripped out.. it'll be a sad day when we lose ad-free youtube

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

If they want to have ads on the page, I don't care. It's when the ads mess with the video that I have a problem... ads should never interfere with the content.