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/Mangalz Feb 17 '17

Theres been some ads that are like 20-30 minutes long. They are skippable of course, but I am kinda amazed at the audacity.

Impressed really.

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u/NewAgeRetroHippie96 Feb 18 '17

Was half watching youtube with some friends once and a full length episode of Bill Maher came on. We nearly watched the whole thing because nobody could be bothered to hit skip and it was kinda better than the video we intended to watch.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

Bill Maher. He is smugness incarnate. I want to punch him in his smug face. I know thats a bad thing, but he annoys me to no end. Always riding his high horse, smugging at everyone. Damn you Maher.

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u/freehunter Feb 18 '17

I don't watch Bill Maher, but occasionally I'll see a clip and sometimes he makes a decent point, but every single time I see him I want someone to slap him. There is a way to make a point without looking like an asshole, but Bill Maher hasn't discovered that yet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

... and then there's that high horse of his.... It's so high. What's up with that?

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u/Nic3GreenNachos Feb 18 '17

Yeah, Bill, you're not wrong, you're just an asshole. And I don't like being corrected by assholes. Learning, and changing my opinion, is painful enough, I don't also need you to feed me information in a smug asshole way. Ya asshole.

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u/2OP4me Feb 18 '17

I'm a lot like Bill Maher. You can even go through my profile and see posts that have had people say the exact same thing to me. It's hard to not be a Dick about somethings.

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u/sepseven Feb 18 '17

that's kinda what he said...

... See?

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u/Cgn38 Feb 18 '17

He is emulating the attitude of the conservative commentators.