Topic 'Re: Ads in online streaming videos' in forum 'Rants, Raves, and Praise' - dslreports.com

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:26:46 EDT

AVD posted : adblocking was so much more logical in the '80s!!!!!!111

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:04:31 EDT

Dude111 posted : I dont see how adblock can stop an ad ON YOUTUBE!!!!! (I mean a video ad embedded in the video (ISNT THE VIDEO AD ALSO AN .FLV FILE??))

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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 05:39:49 EDT

Timmn posted : One of the apps on my Blu-ray player is for Crackle, they have free TV shows and movies. Now I can understand the need for commercials because they are providing their services for free, but it seems that the only advertising client they have is Axe Apollo. Axe only has two commercials, one with a lifeguard and the other with a fireman. The whole idea behind the commercials is stupid, but what is worse is having to watch one of the two commercials at each commercial break.

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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:52:21 EDT

AZinOH posted : I made a quick visit to YouTube clicking on videos at random just to see what ads I would get. Here are the results:

Advil (too bad..I already have the pain-relievers I need)
theHouse.com (wanting to sell me snowboards...I'm 58)
MGM Grand Vietnam (Seriously? I can't afford to go to Chicago.)
The Get Around Knee (if I need one, my doctor will decide)
DISH Hopper (I'm not going to go there)
Oprah (if you think I care about Beyonce, you're wrong)
AMEX Sync on Twitter (I don't even have a cellphone)
Gamefly (I'm not going to go there X 10,000)
Ameriprise Financial (as if I had any money to invest)
Legal Zoom (if I need legal advice, I'll get a lawyer)
and three movies I will never watch
the latest Die Hard
The Internship
Silver Linings Playbook

and to add to the insanity, I started getting repeats of the above.

They were all wasted on me, just as the next 1000 ads will be.

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Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:38:44 EDT

Fir_Na_Tine posted :

said by ke4pym:

I had no idea Youtube even had commercials until recently. When I finally watched a Youtube video on my phone recently, I got hammered with them.

Adblock. It is your friend.

Same here. I was surprised to find that out. Adblock all the way. Also use Ghostery but sometimes on some sites the video doesn't even come up at all.
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Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:29:58 EDT

Thaler posted :

said by BigBlarg:

Anyway, you know what's more annoying than video ads?

When they do that TV thing where the ad is at a different volume level than the content you were watching?

Honestly, I don't know why companies do this. Want to know the easiest way to lose my business? Rupture my ear drums - never, ever will I buy a damn thing you make.

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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:09:40 EDT

Boricua65 posted : Yes, it angers me to no end as well. Adblock doesn't work on every site, BTW. I do have Adblock Plus.
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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:27:08 EDT

carpetshark3 posted : If it's a 5 second thing - turn off images and use the mute. Count about 6 seconds and turn everything back on. It's a pain, but it is revenge. You can't buy what you can't see (or hear)

You can do images instantly in Opera. FX has an add-on.

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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:25:48 EDT

AVD posted : Adblockplus

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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:30:48 EDT

ke4pym posted : I had no idea Youtube even had commercials until recently. When I finally watched a Youtube video on my phone recently, I got hammered with them.

Adblock. It is your friend.

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:01:05 EDT

Dude111 posted : If ya do se a preroll AD isnt it part of the video?? (FLV file) -- adblock wont work on that!!

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:42:57 EDT

sivran posted : I (ab)use the HOSTS file to block ads and rarely see a pre-roll ad on a video.

Though I do sometimes encounter videos that simply won't start until I use HostsMan to temporarily disable the hosts file
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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:10:32 EDT

dandelion posted : I have blocked the ads on most sites for ages. I ALSO wouldn't pay to see whatever it was if there were no ads...it is not my choice to have some "content" shown with ads that I can very well do without. *shrugs*.

Last I was on hulu.. I got the wait time still but at least it blocked the ad.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:41:29 EDT

BigBlarg posted : Actually, many other sites are worst than YouTube...

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:07:46 EDT

CylonRed posted : It is not just Google that does this - many others do as well. So no sympathy needed but people need to figure out that you don't get thing like that for free.
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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:00:28 EDT

banditws6 posted : I'll gladly see YouTube cease to exist, then, before I either put up with that volume of ads or pay them any money. They are hardly a life necessity.

My business has paid Google enough money in AdWords costs -- as have thousands of other businesses, I suspect -- to make it slightly hard for me to sympathize with them on the issue of their costs.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:55:52 EDT

Voxxjin posted : Hell I am just glad many of them allow me to skip after 5 seconds.
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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:35:35 EDT

CylonRed posted : They are proving something for FREE - without ads - you would have to PAY to see the video. Servers, internet connections, and support are not free.

Many are part of public companies - Google owns YouTube and they eventually will need to show some earnings.

Remember the 'free' internet provider NetZero - yea - they had to give that up since there was no viable way to pay for the equipment.

Many websites started as free - providing data or service - but that was done while the 'free' money from VM's or their rich partners ended.

Either pay for the service or get it for free and deal with the ads. There is no such thing as money for nothing - or getting chicks for free. :)
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Brian

"It drops into your stomach like a Abrams's tank.... driven by Rosanne Barr..." A. Bourdain

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:51:42 EDT

seamore posted : I still get the box ads popping up in youtube and i see with other NON youtube sites still have the "Wait 5 seconds to skip the ad, Your video will start in 15/30 seconds, a word from our sponsors, etc."

I guess there's no way around the ads.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:29:03 EDT

BKayrac posted :

said by Oedipus:

It works for stuff like Youtube videos, but not Hulu.

if you are using hulu you are doing it wrong anyways :P

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:15:02 EDT

banditws6 posted : YouTube is unwatchable without AdBlock. I've been using AdBlock so long that I didn't even realize what the "vanilla" YouTube experience had become until recently when I was watching something on another machine. OMG it's an ad blitz.
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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:54:00 EDT

Oedipus posted : It works for stuff like Youtube videos, but not Hulu.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:45:08 EDT

seamore posted :

said by BKayrac:

said by seamore:

said by OCZ:

AdBlock ;)

umm, im under the impression that adblock wont work for video ads.

that impression would be wrong

perhaps i'll try the adblock. But im not sure how this will get around the wait times. In fact, i dont think it will.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:24:33 EDT

BigBlarg posted : It doesn't work for all of them.

Anyway, you know what's more annoying than video ads?

When the stupid ad plays just fine but once the video you want to watch start playing, all it does is buffering every 2 seconds!

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:22:11 EDT

BKayrac posted :

said by seamore:

said by OCZ:

AdBlock ;)

umm, im under the impression that adblock wont work for video ads.

that impression would be wrong

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:02:14 EDT

seamore posted :

said by OCZ:

AdBlock ;)

umm, im under the impression that adblock wont work for video ads.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:51:15 EDT

OCZ posted : AdBlock ;)

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:13:36 EDT

seamore posted : We've all seen them. Wait 5 seconds to skip the ad, Your video will start in 15/30 seconds, a word from our sponsors, etc.

Im sick and tired of these fucking video ads that you find on blogs, news sites, youtube.

Why cant i just start watching the video? It wasnt like this 7-8 years ago. Why must everything you view online have to be a money generating scheme?

fuck all of those companies! i have started closing browser windows when a see an ad trying to load.

flame on!

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