I realize things need to be paid for. But could I just pay a subscription fee or something? Jeebus Khrist allrighty!!
When I click on a video link, I want to see that video RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!! I do not want to see ads for insurance, cars, candidates, or flowers.
Some of these have an opt out where one can click to the video in 5 seconds. Irritating still, but better than the ones that force you to watch the full ad before you get to the video you wanted.
I had started keeping a list of companies that posted full ads on videos. I refused to do business or buy the products of any of them. But in a relative short period of time I had a notebook filled with over 1400 names. I wouldn’t be able to do commerce with anyone if I stuck to my original plan!
So, what do you think of my internet wide subscription idea? I don’t like having to pay extra for something I’m already paying for, but I’m tired of getting
forced to see a commercial every time I click on a video link!
AdBlock works just fine for commercials on Youtube videos. I’ve actually turned it off on some PCs for YouTube, to help support some channels that I watch who make their living from the ad revenues. If I keep it on, I see no ads at all–nothing before or after the videos, and none of the ads that show up as annotations.
I used think watching shows on the network’s website after they’ve aired was a good way to cut out some of the commercial crap. For a while the ads were tolerable, maybe a 30 second ad where there would normally be a 3-minute commercial break in the show, or even an option to watch a 90 second ad up front and then watch the show uninterrupted. Not any more, now it’s almost as bad with 4-5 ads stuck in there, including stupid “interactive” ads that want you to click on what “story” to hear or whatever. Like I give a crap. Plus they are blaringly loud, just like the fricking TV.
This is why I cancelled Hulu Plus after my free trial when I bought a Blu-Ray player. I’m not paying several bucks a month just to have more ads shoved at me. I already do that more than I want to just by having cable.
It’s been a while since I tried this, but one of the sites to watch network programs (I think ABC’s website) won’t let you watch the program until you disable Adblock first.
I have, for various reasons and in various ways, slowly gotten myself to a point where I almost never see or hear advertising in any form any more. I can go days or even weeks without being exposed to anything more intrusive than driving past a business and seeing its signs.
Every now and then, I travel somewhere back in the real world, and it’s amazing to realize just how much advertising we put up with every day. It’s constant, and it’s everywhere. And we generally just accept it without thinking.
My husband refuses to use adblockers, I guess because he’s still stuck in 2005 when a lot of adblockers would block things you actually wanted in addition to the ads. Whenever I have to use his computer for anything, it blows my mind how ugly and ad-infested the entire Internet is. There’s just… shit, everywhere, blinking and flashing and taking up massive amounts of screen real estate.
His business if he wants to surf the web like that, but I’m glad I don’t have to.
I was astounded when I needed to use a colleague’s computer for something at work once and had the same experience - I was horrified by the blinking, flashing pollution (for want of a better term) taking up so much of the screen.
It had never occured to them to install an adblocker; they thought it might be illegal or something. I was very sad for them, having to experience the internet that way.
