Yes it's very annoying to watch a 15 second ad for a 10 second video!

Yes adblock plus works very well for these, especially on youtube.

Adverts and spam are capitalism, i tell you.

I feel your pain! We are slowly losing our freedom from ads.

I do not visit theater chains too often but when I do I am shocked about the number of ads before the film (previews, car ads, cosmetics). Very very sad.

I have less of a problem with ads BEFORE the movie than ads IN the movie. These days movies such as 007 and Mission Impossible are all about the camera angles that get the product shot (what kind of car they are using, laptop, cell phone..etc..) It is so distracting and pisses me off.

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Truth to be told too, it seems to me hosting and content generation was never cheaper than today. Increased ads in a decreasing expensive environment sound like commercialisation of the web to me (i.e. every little bit that would have been provided as "labor of love" before now makes money in some way).

Agree with 100% of you guys... Except with xclusiv8 with is Firefox comment

The problem with these ads is that they are obtrusive, they annoy you because they block what you want to see, that's guod will not have a problem with ads.



And the ads here I think are perfect, they don't get in your way, you notice them, sometimes click on them, but they don't pop up in your face or, even worse, you don't have to be waiting for THE AD to load. That's really annoying, with the Latinamerican internet that I have, I usually have to wait to just see the video, and with ads... I hae to wait for the ads, and then for the video! Disgusting no matter how you see it.

Unfortunately so much of the old "simpler" web seems to be vanishing, or at least becoming buried deeply under the "new" web.

An easy example are the many excellent "one man" websites out there devoted to the history of a product or hobby. There was a time when those website would turn up in your search engine results. Today it seems like a related Wikipedia page is in the top results far, far too often for my satisfaction. I might have to click through pages and pages of results for sales aggregators and blog repostings before a quality page comes up. I suppose modern SEO has somewhat to do with this.

A few website owners will add themselves to a related Wikipedia entry for extra exposure. And sometimes a little "link war" can be seen in the edits. Speaks a bit to just how much traffic goes through those Wikipedia pages, however ill suited to task they may be.

Yep Adlabs, those were the kind of pages and content I was thinking of.

And it's true - there are four or five companies trying to become "the Portal" to the web. Google, Wikipedia a bit, Facebook, Bing. In fact we brought it on ourself by our overreliance on Google - can anyone today really say that the search engine results are "the best" or are they simple what we have gotten used too and what Google wants us to see? There used to be five or six big name search engines just ten years ago.

The total "ROI" approach on anything done in today's web space is not generating good quality content and user experience.

Adverts are a way to offer content for free in exchange for watching, and possibly buying a product.

You know you're in crappy pr0n land when the advertisement has better content than the site itself.