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What's with all the freaking ads on YouTube?

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  • 21-01-2015 6:21pm
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    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭


    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?


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    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Adblock


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭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


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Oryx wrote: »
    Adblock

    Does that work with Youtube ads?


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    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Does that work with Youtube ads?

    Yes. Who has a browser without adblock these days?


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    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Have you watched BBC your whole life?


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    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    drumswan wrote: »
    Yes. Who has a browser without adblock these days?

    Me :(
    Tell me of your ways oh wise internet masters


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    Stone Deaf 4evr
    Registered Users Posts: 7,991 ✭✭✭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.


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    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    Cormac... wrote: »
    Me :(
    Tell me of your ways oh wise internet masters

    google adblock, click on install


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    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


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

    Both for not having Adblock and not just googling it there :D


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    AboutaWeekAgo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭AboutaWeekAgo


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


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    bigslick
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭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.


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    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭bnt


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

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


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


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,408 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    AboutaWeekAgo wrote: »
    Been many years since I've seen an ad online!

    Shake and Vac: Put the Freshness Back.


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    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Lo and behold, adblock worked.


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    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Youtube still has ads?


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    #19
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭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/


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    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭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.


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