What's with all the freaking ads on YouTube?

CruelCoin

As per thread title.....

Watching this 13 minute video, and according to the little yellow bars of doom, i'll be subjected to two ads before the things up.

I know its a free service, and that they need to butter their bread somehow, but this is excessive.

I'd actually pay €50 not to see ads for a year.

Thoughts?

Correction: A 20 seconds unskippable video ad, a skipable ad, a banner ad on loading and a banner pop-up midway.
4 Ads in a 13 minute video. ****ing seriously?

Oryx

Adblock

Birneybau

CruelCoin wrote: »

As per thread title.....

Watching this 13 minute video, and according to the little yellow bars of doom, i'll be subjected to two ads before the things up.

I know its a free service, and that they need to butter their bread somehow, but this is excessive.

I'd actually pay €50 not to see ads for a year.

Thoughts?

Think they are bringing in an ad-free subscription model.

Generic Dreadhead

CruelCoin wrote: »

As per thread title.....

Watching this 13 minute video, and according to the little yellow bars of doom, i'll be subjected to two ads before the things up.

I know its a free service, and that they need to butter their bread somehow, but this is excessive.

I'd actually pay €50 not to see ads for a year.

Thoughts?

Isn't it down to the host of the video to establish adding those ads to generate revenue? I may be wrong, but yeah they are f**king annoying

Birneybau

Oryx wrote: »

Adblock

Does that work with Youtube ads?

drumswan

Birneybau wrote: »

Does that work with Youtube ads?

Yes. Who has a browser without adblock these days?

iDave

Have you watched BBC your whole life?

Generic Dreadhead

drumswan wrote: »

Yes. Who has a browser without adblock these days?

Me
Tell me of your ways oh wise internet masters

Stone Deaf 4evr

from what I've heard in podcasts, youtube are constantly looking at ways to avoid adblock kicking in, ideas such as having the ads hardcoded into the video itself, to paid subscription models to avoid ads.

It was bound to happen since google bought it, im amazed it hasn't been accomplished yet.

drumswan

Cormac... wrote: »

Me
Tell me of your ways oh wise internet masters

google adblock, click on install

Generic Dreadhead

I feel like a bit of an idiot now :pac:

Both for not having Adblock and not just googling it there

AboutaWeekAgo

Been many years since I've seen an ad online!

bigslick

Cormac... wrote: »

Isn't it down to the host of the video to establish adding those ads to generate revenue? I may be wrong, but yeah they are f**king annoying

You are correct. As far as I am aware, Youtube suggests a set based on their video and then the uploader can choose to accept these, or decrease (or increase) them.

bnt

If you use Firefox, Adblock Edge is the version to go for.

PizzamanIRL

You think those people make videos for the crack or something?

kneemos

AboutaWeekAgo wrote: »

Been many years since I've seen an ad online!

Shake and Vac: Put the Freshness Back.

CruelCoin

Lo and behold, adblock worked.

shruikan2553

Youtube still has ads?

Calibos

If you use chrome/Firefox/Opera install Magic Actions for Youtube. Also blocks ads but has lots of other useful features like auto preselecting your choice of Resolution, Video window size, enhanced buffering of videos, adjust volume with mouse scroll wheel etc etc

http://www.chromeactions.com/

KomradeBishop

Just follow the instructions to install this YouTube video downloader script (for Firefox, requires the Greasemonkey extension), then just directly download YouTube videos from the download button added to YouTube pages - no ads, no annoying pauses/caching, and you can select the highest quality version; just have to wait for the download.