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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

*a 5 second ad every 5 minutes

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it was really that little I wouldn't be so up in arms about it. I put a video on yesterday and had 30 seconds of ads before it started and then another 30 seconds of ads after a minute and a half. Fuck that nonsense.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Usually the only thing I find YouTube uses for is those short 30 seconds of a video I have searched for. Like how to DIY something or quick, visualdemonstrations of concepts.

    As bad as YouTube has gotten, it's already super common for me to skip over the first four or five search results, which are usually YouTube links, and just go to like the 4th or 5th one down, and fine. It's just as useful. If I was blind or couldn't read, that would suck, but I can live without YouTube like, I mostly already do, and used to, too.

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