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Anyone else just close videos that begin with ads?

lol, yeah. I'll refresh to see if it will play the next time, but after 2 tries, I am out of there or try to find a mirror.

I'd rather spend 2 minutes looking for an adfree mirror, than watch a 30 second ad.
 
Ad Block stops the ads so I just leave the sound up and open another tab for a couple minutes while it times out. When the sound comes on I switch over.
 
what annoys me about Youtube ads is that they seem to load unbelievably well, yet the actual video buffers for hours.
 
I put up with the pre-roll ads on Youtube that let me skip in 5 seconds, but I close almost anything else.
 
If it's for a movie trailer, yes. So I'm willing to watch their movie ad, then they put another ad in front of it? WTF! That annoys me.
 
I usually close it off too unless it's under 5 seconds. It's pretty bad that we have commercials on the internet now. Seems lot of video sites are doing it too. Some even have full length TV commercials. It's one thing to have a 5 sec thing but 30 seconds is pushing it, especially for a silly little cat video or something that may not even last that long.

If they implemented them in a way where the movie buffers in the background it would not be so bad, but the fact that it only buffers after the commercial is what pisses me off. I just waited 30 seconds for the video to start, now I have to wait even more?
 
Fastest way to make me close the tab. I've noticed that more and more news "articles" are now being posted as videos with ads.
 
SirStev0 said:
The "I have ad blocker" posts in here are useless.
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I'm not sure why it's useless - it seems to be pretty good information to me. I also use adblocker plus. There's no delay for videos on youtube, and I never see a video advertisement on that site prior to the video I want to see.

It seems that this is simply great advice to people who are irritated with ads, but apparently didn't know how to make them go away.
 
Red Squirrel said:
That's what I was wondering, how would it help for ads embedded in a video?
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Link to an example video of what you're talking about? Afaik, youtube occasionally puts an advertisement video at the front of other videos - if I'm using IE at work, I see these sometimes. They're the thing that reminds me that I'm using the wrong browser.
 
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