Is Adblock no longer blocking Youtube ads?

[BuildaBox]

starting up your pc is free
exiting your home is free
going to sleep is free
starting your car is free

if someone put ads when you tried to do all of those things, would you complain?

Starting up your PC, exiting your home, going to sleep, and starting your car are not examples of entertainment. It would not be acceptable, in my opinion, to put ads on anything that is not entertainment, or a website.

[Ad Bot]

[Cut Glass]

Okay I got a good idea. Lets make YouTube a paid service. Every video you watch cost $1. /sarcasm, seriously, they provide a free loving service, deal with a few ads

Pageloss

Jesus loving Christ.

I'm tired of people saying how ads "only take 30 seconds or your time" and "just do something else while you wait"

No.

Advertising is the laziest and rudest way of making money ever.
Imagine if you will, you are walking into a store minding your own business, then two security guards and a man in a hotdog suit run out in front of you.
One of the security guards states, "you cant go into the store until the advertisement is over"
Then the man in the hotdog suit takes out a package of hotdogs and continues telling you how great his brand of hotdogs are for 3 minutes straight.
if you try to walk away the security guards push you back and say "not yet."

That's what advertising feels like to me, I'm constantly getting things i don't care about shoved in my face and its annoying.

Especially if it a movie on some sort of free site and it plays the same advertisement 6 times throughout the movie.

Why can't people just find a better way to make money that's not a pain to their customers?

"Customers". It's a free loving service you idiot.

Edit: Also,

Why can't people just find a better way to make money that's not a pain to their customers?

Okay, here's another option, we make YouTube a paid service. You get 1 hour of streaming a day or you have to buy a monthly subscription.

[The Resonte!]

Starting up your PC, exiting your home, going to sleep, and starting your car are not examples of entertainment. It would not be acceptable, in my opinion, to put ads on anything that is not entertainment, or a website.

your pc can be used to play video games.
videogames is entertainment.
therefore, putting ads on starting up your pc is an example of entertainment.

also there's lots of ads on websites
which sucks but yeah
at least they don't interrupt anything

infact

let's look at badspots famous quote about going to a free barbeque and having the host throw poop at you
but obviously if it's free you can't complain about it right?

RIGHT?

[BuildaBox]

your pc can be used to play video games.
videogames is entertainment.
therefore, putting ads on starting up your pc is an example of entertainment.

...
I hope you're joking. That is honestly one of the dumbest things I've heard all day.

let's look at badspots famous quote about going to a free barbeque and having the host throw poop at you
but obviously if it's free you can't complain about it right?

Jesus loving Christ there's a difference between displaying an ad and throwing poop at people.

[VerticalHorizon]

I don't use an adblocker cause I want to support the people who make things I like.

[The Resonte!]

Jesus loving Christ there's a difference between displaying an ad and throwing poop at people.

fine then
let's say that instead of the host throwing poop at you, you have to first fill out a questionaire of an advertisement company before you can even begin to eat anything at all.

look at tf2
there's those servers that play those assholic pinion pot o gold ads that play advertisements that you're FORCED to watch until you can play.
and those ads last for about 30 seconds

it's complete crap.

[KillerCop311]

-snip-

I absolutely HATE those ads in TF2. Even if you try and use a HTML disabled MOTD, it'll start yelling at you and say" WAIKSHDOIUAHBSOITFUR YOU CAN'T PLAY UNLESS YOU ENABLE IT REENABLE THEN REJOIN SO WE CAN SEE YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT stuffTY ADS "

Even the scripts by others don't work. It'll spam open the MOTD again.

[BuildaBox]

let's say that instead of the host throwing poop at you, you have to first fill out a questionaire of an advertisement company before you can even begin to eat anything at all.

look at tf2
there's those servers that play those assholic pinion pot o gold ads that play advertisements that you're FORCED to watch until you can play.
and those ads last for about 30 seconds

it's complete crap.

In both examples you have the choice to leave and go to a different party/server. You're not forced into loving anything and people don't make you sign any questionnaires to get into a BBQ anyway.

[Zeblote]

If only ads were actually useful... I keep getting the same ad like 10 times and I just don't care...

What should I do with ads about cars? can't buy one.

Why do I get ads about stuff that I already visited? it's obvious that I'm not interested in that or already have it.

[The Resonte!]

In both examples you have the choice to leave and go to a different party/server. You're not forced into loving anything and people don't make you sign any questionnaires to get into a BBQ anyway.

this is the equivilent of "don't like it don't join"
which is never a way to solve things

if i go in a free barbeque and the host throws poop in my face,
will you say "well if you didn't like it, you shouldn't have went to the bbq. duh."


the thing about pinion is that they actually don't allow you to pick a class until the entire ad is watched
besides
you don't know that people won't make you sign questionaires for a BBQ

[Subpixel]

It started happening to me, I got Adblock Plus and it fixed.

[Filipe]

I have the normal Adblock and it works for me.

[Headcrab Zombie]

I've been getting unskippable, minute long, or more, ads lately

-whining snip-

Lol.
See the difference is that when you go to a store, you're buying something and giving the store money.
When you go to youtube to watch a video, you watching the video doesn't give them any money, quite the opposite, it costs them money to give you the video, in the form of bandwidth and employee salaries and all sorts of overhead.

[Starzy]

I don't see why youtube doesn't add ad's to the actual video instead of a different display, that'll make it fair. Both partys (people with and without adblock) have the same equality.

[TristanLuigi]

BuildaBox is being handicapped. All of their points are valid.

Solution: No in-video ads, just the ones to the sides. I wouldn't even care if there was an ad every 10 comments in the comment section, that happens anyway. What it boils down to is if the ad actively uses your time or not.