Youtube Video Interstitial Ads

[Renegade]

Has anyone else noticed that Youtube is now playing video ads not only at the beginning of videos, but in the middle as well?

[KynloStephen66515]

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[Deozaan]

I have never noticed any video ads in YouTube. Only the little text ads that pop up about 10 seconds into the video and get in the way of everything.

But I haven't been on YouTube for a few days.

[Renegade]

The video ads have been around for a few weeks. It's the new "in the middle ones" that I was asking about.

I've only seen one so far...

[Renegade]

Ok, here's a screenshot with annotations:

Youtube Video Interstitial Ads

Just like TV.

[Renegade]

Oh god... I just got my ears blown out... Probably 20 dB louder... waaaayyyy out of proportion to the vid...

[Renegade]

In addition to having my ears blown out again, not all ads can be skipped:

Youtube Video Interstitial Ads

[Deozaan]

Weird.

I haven't seen that yet. But today I did see a little pop up text ad which was animated. So I guess it wasn't a text ad. It was more like those annoying GIF ad banners from ~12 years ago.

[Renegade]

Well, looks like things are evolving.

I noticed a little while ago that when the countdown for the ads gets to 3 or 2, your mouse cursor disappears so that you can't close the ads. You need to wiggle your mouse and find the cursor again, buying them an extra second or two.

[Carol Haynes]

Well we are looking at the death of YouTube - there are plenty of other platforms for video that don't do this so I guess most people will start removing their videos and placing them somewhere else. It really isn't acceptable behaviour. It's one thing having ads on the page but a completely different level of intrusion to actually destroy content in this way.

What's VIMEO up to these days?

[J-Mac]

If Ad Muncher can't block them I'll stop watching YouTube altogether. Won't cause me any grief at all.

Jim