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Honestly, after all the shit YouTube is pulling with their ad systems, I wouldn't mind those old tiny banner strip ads that used to occasionally pop up at the bottom of a video. Compared to the current standard of 3 minutes of unskippable ads interrupting every other video, those little banners are downright unobtrusive.
Don't forget that ads used to be context aware instead of user aware. Which was perfect for privacy.
Hell, I never minded those in theory, it was only how obnoxious they were made that was the problem.
That's the issue with online advertising in a nutshell, isn't it.
Oh wow I forgot about those