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Ketchup

Ketchup

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Sep 1, 2002
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Used to be that advertisements popping up on videos could be closed. The last few videos I have watching have ads that cannot be removed. Is this something new they are doing, or is this something they offer for the creator to make more money?

Either way, don't like it. Do this crap from day one or not at all.
 
dank69

dank69

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Oct 6, 2009
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From what I've seen the ads >30s can be skipped after 15s but ads 30s or less cannot be skipped. I don't have a large enough sample size to be sure that 30s is the actual cutoff.
 
Hugo Drax

Hugo Drax

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Nov 20, 2011
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Wow you mean somehow they expect to monetize all that money and equipment to host videos.

I guess they want to be able to make money to keep up the servers pay salaries for the employees and pay for the huge bandwidth bills.

What they should offer is a no advert package. Pay X dollars a month and you do not need to be bothered with the ads.
 
xanis

xanis

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Sep 11, 2005
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Hugo Drax said:
What they should offer is a no advert package. Pay X dollars a month and you do not need to be bothered with the ads.
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If I watched more videos (and didn't use AdBlock) I'd probably do that. Make it $5/month or less and I'd be in.

EDIT: Or maybe they could do some sort of tiered plan; for X videos it's $5/month, Y videos it's $3/month, etc.
 
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darkewaffle

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Oct 7, 2005
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dank69 said:
From what I've seen the ads >30s can be skipped after 15s but ads 30s or less cannot be skipped. I don't have a large enough sample size to be sure that 30s is the actual cutoff.
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Sounds about right in my experience.
 
Jodell88

Jodell88

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Jan 29, 2007
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onza said:
I would pay a service fee for how much I use YT if and only if 1 - no ads and 2 - faster video streams.
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THIS!

I have trouble streaming 480P at times. If I go on the Gangnam Style video, I can load it in 5 seconds at 1080P. o_O
 
AstroManLuca

AstroManLuca

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Jun 24, 2004
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I can't use YouTube without adblock. Not because the ads are annoying (they are but I can live with them), but because they default to high quality and take forever to load thanks to YouTube's shitty servers. As a result, an unskippable 15 second ad takes 45+ seconds to load, buffering every few seconds.

It also eats up mobile bandwidth, which is like, fuck you, I have limited mobile data, and I don't want to use it to watch your shitty ads. Made worse by the fact that there's no adblock for YouTube on Android.
 
Ketchup

Ketchup

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Sep 1, 2002
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You know what? I'm an idiot. I was watching the video with Firefox my virtual machine, not on the host machine. Forgot to install Ad-Block on the virtual machine. Ad-Block is doing its job just fine. Just gotta remember to install it.
 
Jodell88

Jodell88

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ketchup79 said:
you know what? I'm an idiot. I was watching the video with firefox my virtual machine, not on the host machine. Forgot to install ad-block on the virtual machine. Ad-block is doing its job just fine. Just gotta remember to install it.
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PEBKAC :p

caps
 
JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

No Lifer
Jul 3, 2003
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I just close it when I see ads or if it is something I really want to watch I minimize and mute it for 30 seconds.
 
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Schfifty Five

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Oct 20, 2005
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I don't know how accurate this is, but from my experience, there are ads that are:

1. 15-30 seconds and can't be skipped and are pre-video
2. 1+ minutes that can be skipped after 5 seconds and are pre-video
3. Pop-ups that are in-video and can be closed
 
fatpat268

fatpat268

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Jan 14, 2006
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Jodell88 said:
THIS!

I have trouble streaming 480P at times. If I go on the Gangnam Style video, I can load it in 5 seconds at 1080P. o_O
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Yup same here. It's why I hate youtube in general. If you're watching a popular video, you'll get loads of bandwidth and it'll load plenty fast. But try and watch something with 1000 views, and you're lucky if you can watch the video at 360p without having to pause the video and buffer.

And fuck youtube, seriously. If I go fullscreen, I don't need you to change the video quality, and stop the video and redownload at your slow ass pace.
 
blankslate

blankslate

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Jun 16, 2008
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I like youtube's library of videos so I don't use ad-block I just skip the ad usually unless it's a from a channel I like then I'll just let it play and read a news site in another tab then switch back.
 
zCypher

zCypher

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Aug 18, 2002
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So many people complain about YouTube being slow or having shitty servers, yet somehow on my very ordinary 8mbps connection I've never had any trouble loading YouTube. I also use ABP and wouldn't consider NOT using it.
 
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JimmiG

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randomrogue said:
Youtube barely works for me. It stutters like crazy and the ads are annoying as hell.
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The ads always play perfectly for me. :p

Actual videos are hit and miss. Sometimes they play perfectly in HD, sometimes I have to drop to 240p. I have a 100Mb connection so bandwidth at my end should be plenty.
 
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