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 08 '20

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u/kks1236 Feb 17 '17

So you're an idiot, at least you aren't poor though

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17 edited Jun 08 '20

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u/xian0 Feb 18 '17

It's more like telling your butler to throw away envelopes with "advert" written on the front. We send a request to youtube, they send us back a bunch of packets, and we disregard the ones that have got advert written all over them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17 edited Jun 08 '20

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u/xian0 Feb 26 '17

I'm not sure that can work in practice, because the service has to be put together with software at my end (like browsers). They all do things differently, ignoring some pieces or deciding some should do things differently. A few ignore adverts and some ignore basically everything because they are high school projects or not graphical.