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- dburka, on 10/11/2007, -14/+63What do you mean RIP? They're pretty simple ads that support a very useful service that clearly a lot of people appreciate and use. I'm sure some users will be turned off but I for one don't expect to get everything for free on the interweb. Slim ads seem like a perfectly legitimate price to pay for a service like this.
- swordphish, on 10/11/2007, -38/+84YouTube RIP 2007
- eplawless, on 10/11/2007, -3/+42Youtube videos with ads stop displaying because of adblock plus. Oh well.
- merreborn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+40Has everyone already forgotten that youtube has never turned a profit? And that they drop $1 mill a month on bandwidth?
They're gonna have to start making money somehow. You just can't use as much bandwidth as they do, and not advertise.
There are close buttons in the upper right of both parts of the ad. If you don't like it, you can close it. - dburka, on 10/11/2007, -6/+40Making money isn't "corporate greed". The ads aren't abusive, they don't take advantage of anyone, and they aren't even very intrusive. Making money via smart monetization of a service isn't greed, it's called capitalism and it's a good thing.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+38I'd rather watch a full screen of ads for 4 minutes than watch a My Chemical Romance video.
- niradg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31let's be realistic, if they continue to allow people to embed all their videos on external sites, they have to monetize it somehow. and this is a lot better than pre-roll ads.
- WUThad, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28I don't get why everyone is complaining. Youtube is a free service, yet we expect them to cater to our every need. It's either the ads or they could ask us to pay for their service.
This is a good move by Youtube, better than having a 30 second ad run before the video. - Bupsy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26I stopped watching T.V. cause of the damn ads!
- strangewill, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28I don't really mind, Youtube has brought us great movies, giving a little back via advertising is perfectly fine if they don't make it annoying. :D
- niradg, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28lol. something tells me your 16:9 TV has been stretching things for you
- ronaldsze, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Google bought Youtube for PROFIT, not for BEING SUED....
- SystemError, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Google is an Ad Company so it was only a mater of time.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+25What the hell are you talking about? Hardly any TV shows are produced and shown in that format. Almost everything on TV is 4:3.
- sphykik, on 10/11/2007, -6/+24dugg down because of the my chemical romance video
yuck... - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17I assume everyone would, which is why they're starting testing there.
- fkr3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19dburka is an employee of digg, not one of the retarded diglettes expecting the world to give them everything for nothing.
- wrenchone, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16YouTube hates bills.
- monkeymad2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Most American shows are 4:3,
Most British shows (and maybe other countries) are 16:9....so stop tearing this guy a new one when he's from Scotland, like I am. - arunforce, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16YouTube won't die. That's what everyone said when Google bought them... You think all those PHds at Google can't figure out what is intrusive and what not? Take a look at MySpace... Yet it still works. If MTV and CNN can have bottom bars, so can YouTube.
- darkecho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Unlike cnet, and other places that feed video, at least you can watch the video while viewing the ads instead of having to watch an ad THEN the video. Yes its a little naggy but still better.
- Livewire, on 10/11/2007, -6/+18so you've never watched tv?
- fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13If the people who opposed ads on YouTube saw their bandwidth bill, they might stop talking.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10i just noticed on firefox, adblock blocks the video with ads from the youtube site.the embedded video shows up fine.
- Bob042, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10@eplawless
Oh, is that why the video sometimes doesn't show? Oh well, f5 fixes that... - tunapuna, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Pretty sure it is in random testing. I saw it once and didn't see it another time.
- uglymike, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I agree with monkeymad2, locally made stuff (here in Australia) is all 16:9 format, has been for years. I can't stand watching anything in the 4:3 format such as much of the ***** that is pumped on to our screens from the USA.
- TWill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I won't mind the ads too much, but it would be nice if they used targeted ads that are related to the video being watched. Cingular and My Chemical Romance...not seeing the connection there...
- santacruz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Just more ads to ignore.
- Hervard, on 10/11/2007, -8/+14So this is why Google bought YouTube...
- eedge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@zxzajszxz
"Where to turn to now?"
Xtube?
... - NextGenXbox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5What the hell? How did My Chemical Romance become the #2 most viewed video on youtube EVER? That's odd.
- aristoworks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5So can I expect the ***** encoding and jerky streams to go away?
- swordphish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Exactly! I hate being force fed - I don't give two ***** if the network, newspaper, or website needs to generate revenue.
Bottom line: we are the target audience. WE are the sole reason these companies exist in the first place.
Yet somehow, WE end up as a second class to the advertisers. Take Imus for example. Do you think any exec in their right mind would remove a show because the audience demanded it? Hell no! But you better believe that if the advertisers come a knockin', the show will get to stoppin'. The execs don't give a damn if your entertainment experience becomes degraded. As long as they're turning a buck, right?
But in the long run, it's really our own damn fault.
This is why the only thing worth watching on TV anymore is PBS,
and the only thing worth watching on the web comes from independent sites. - jivemasta, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5swordphish, you are ***** retarded. You are not a customer to youtube, you get to use their service free of charge. Therefore, you have no right to complain when they put ads on the videos. If you paid youtube to watch the video, it should be ad free, but you don't, so it isn't. Let youtube send you their million dollar bandwidth bill, and we'll see how quick you change your mind about ads. Every video site out there will eventually have ads on them, they will have to so they can pay the bills. Welcome to the internet, ads are everywhere, get used to it.
- CognitiveD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Me too, and I only had one channel with commercial ads on.
Ads and ***** unscripted teve made me get rid of my tv - Agret, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3RTFA
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It's frustrating watching the few US shows I like because they are stretched.
- FluffyArmada, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Done.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Holy Crap!
adblock, blocks all the youtube videos now...at least when viewed on the site
Ouch! - zxzajszxz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3TV has overly horrific ads. An ad or two here and there is fine, but when they overlay ads onto the TV program, that's just downright stupid. So then, people move to YouTube. Sure, they have a few banners at the sides and the top, but one can deal. Oh, no! Wait! YouTube is about to get ads on their videos? Oh, that's right. Where to turn to now?
- webtroy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This flat out sucks, i have $100 bet that google wouldn't do this to youtube, i figured they made enough from text advertising everywhere else on the site.. damn!
on a secondary note, to the savvy youtube user these ads wont bother anyone. But for a new user, they will be clicking away, and be thinking "thats not what i was looking for" .. close window. - KevinJim, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@dburka
Since when capitalism became a good thing ??? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1livewire, you can't stop doing something if you've never done it before.
- swordphish, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4I'm sorry, but the YouTube experience was steadily degrading before this. Now it's going to just downright suck.
I don't mind regular old banner ads, but this is adds to a growing trend that, imho, will eventually lead internet entertainment down into the gutter with cable TV.
Mark my words, one day you will be browing the web, being force-fed infomercial after infomercial at 3AM, just hoping to catch a glimmer of something entertaining. - swordphish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If the majority of people treat ads the same way I do (ignoring them), then how are ads a feasible way of generating profit?
Answer: because the rest of the group are mostly idiots - scammers know this, advertisers know this, and so does Google.
Not saying that they shouldn't be trying to make money - of course they should, but this is Google ffs. I'm almost positive they can think of a better way to generate revenue. - swordphish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Of course not. YouTube (and the rest of the web) is just going to keep piling ***** on top of *****, until eventually we're all just walking through a giant *****.
Think about how promising MySpace was in it's hayday.
Now think about how MySpace is today - it just downright sucks, regardless of it's wild popularity and success.
Personally, I think YouTube should focus on achieving rock solid video output before they even think about trying to add on to the video player. - crazyboy1121, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If they do that they better make the viewing screen bigger! That ad sucks up a heck of alot of space for a Youtube video.
- phlogiston99, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Good move. We definitely need to make the Internet more like TV, otherwise it will never be successful. Lets have a very reasonable 42% ad / 58% content ratio, force people through stuff they don't want, and wow, cingular is now at&t, let me run to the store and lock myself in a 2 year contract of crappy service and abysmal support, because yeah, it's really effective!
Wait... - Myonosken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Anyone else sick of the extra ***** that keeps being added to Youtube? Now these ads are fine, but the new flash players and layout means it lags like a whore when you try to do the one thing you want to do - watch a video. It means my, albeit rather old, laptop stutters throughout when it was fine on youtube a year and a half ago.
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