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Since this is inevitably going to turn into the usual back and forth about adblocking, I'll just throw this out there: I would definitely use an adblocker that
by patmcguire 10y ago
Since this is inevitably going to turn into the usual back and forth about adblocking, I'll just throw this out there: I would definitely use an adblocker that only applied to video.
Video ads are a unique brand of terrible. Lose the connection, player gets funky, have to reload? Boom, another 30 seconds of preroll ad. Ad stutters, plays a second then stops for four to buffer another second? Guess what, the ad is still at 0:29 left, because the ad doesn't end when thirty seconds pass, it ends when their shitty server plays thirty seconds of video. And the ambush ads: fifteen minutes of leaving a tab in the background and it starts autoplaying a new video.
I keep turning Adblock Plus off out of a sense of obligation and then end up turning it on again because it is such a frustrating experience to try to watch a video with it off.