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Have you ever noticed that you never have a problem playing ads, but yet the video following the ad doesn't work half the time? That's one thing that's irked m

Have you ever noticed that you never have a problem playing ads, but yet the video following the ad doesn't work half the time? That's one thing that's irked me about youtube for a while.

chadcf 16y ago
Heh, yeah, I get that. Oddly enough on hulu the video generally plays fine, but sometimes the ads pause to buffer...
- Qz 16y ago
  Recently AdBlock seems to have completely zapped Hulu ads (you still have to wait, but nothing ever shows up).
dangero 16y ago
Yeah, and this is exactly how I know that the problem isn't on my end. The commercials work great!
jrockway 16y ago
Youtube has ads?
JshWright 16y ago
The ad is likely being served by a CDN server much closer to you than the server the video itself is coming from.
- brianpan 16y ago
  Should that irk me more? Or less? :)
- baddox 16y ago
  And the bitrate of the advertisements is always very low.
barrkel 16y ago
Until I ran a browser (Chrome, or it might have been Safari) that didn't have AdBlockPlus installed, I had actually never seen a video ad on YouTube that wasn't part of the video being watched (i.e. a pre-roll ad). I didn't find out that they had implemented this until about 2 months ago.
- jrsmith1279 16y ago
  I don't run an ad blocker because I feel like watching/viewing an ad is the least I can do to support a free site. Just to be clear, I'm not condemning you for using an ad blocker, to each his own, just clarifying why I do see the ads. That said, I still think it's crazy that the quality of service for Youtube's ads seems to be a priority over the actual video.
  - chopsueyar 16y ago
    Your 'voluntary' user data supports the 'free' sites.
    - ThomPete 16y ago
      Not if they cant use it to sell him ads
      - chopsueyar 16y ago
        You think they care about the individual?
        ThomPete 16y ago
        No they care about the individuals.

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Have you ever noticed that you never have a problem playing ads, but yet the video following the ad doesn't work half the time? That's one thing that's irked m

by jrsmith1279 16y ago

Have you ever noticed that you never have a problem playing ads, but yet the video following the ad doesn't work half the time? That's one thing that's irked me about youtube for a while.

chadcf 16y ago
Heh, yeah, I get that. Oddly enough on hulu the video generally plays fine, but sometimes the ads pause to buffer...
- Qz 16y ago
  Recently AdBlock seems to have completely zapped Hulu ads (you still have to wait, but nothing ever shows up).
dangero 16y ago
Yeah, and this is exactly how I know that the problem isn't on my end. The commercials work great!
jrockway 16y ago
Youtube has ads?
JshWright 16y ago
The ad is likely being served by a CDN server much closer to you than the server the video itself is coming from.
- brianpan 16y ago
  Should that irk me more? Or less? :)
- baddox 16y ago
  And the bitrate of the advertisements is always very low.
barrkel 16y ago
Until I ran a browser (Chrome, or it might have been Safari) that didn't have AdBlockPlus installed, I had actually never seen a video ad on YouTube that wasn't part of the video being watched (i.e. a pre-roll ad). I didn't find out that they had implemented this until about 2 months ago.
- jrsmith1279 16y ago
  I don't run an ad blocker because I feel like watching/viewing an ad is the least I can do to support a free site. Just to be clear, I'm not condemning you for using an ad blocker, to each his own, just clarifying why I do see the ads. That said, I still think it's crazy that the quality of service for Youtube's ads seems to be a priority over the actual video.
  - chopsueyar 16y ago
    Your 'voluntary' user data supports the 'free' sites.
    - ThomPete 16y ago
      Not if they cant use it to sell him ads
      - chopsueyar 16y ago
        You think they care about the individual?
        ThomPete 16y ago
        No they care about the individuals.