Dear Friends:
Your ever-vigilant reporter is watching out for you and me and it's a good thing there is someone to keep an eye on these bastards.
What I'm talking about is commercials on UTube! (Ya, that's what I'm talkin' about!)
There was a time when they just had stationary ads on the page and you could look at them as you were searching for a song or listening to it.
But like everything else on the Internet advertising became more and more insidious..... and those diabolical ad-men found new and better ways to grab our attention!
First, they had 3, 4 or 5-second ads at the start of a video clip.... and these were not intrusive enough to cause anyone great concern..... so they were gradually added to EVERY clip on the Site!
Then they went to 15-second or (gasp) 30-second ads.... but you had the option of deleting them after 5 seconds.... so this was also within the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
NOW, they are gradually sneaking in 15-second ads that ya CAN'T delete and they are starting to become a pain in the ass.
Eventually, we will become so conditioned to this assault on our senses that every bit we want to watch on UTube will subject us to a 30 second or one-minute commercial before we can even see anything........ and the worst part is that we will not even object!
THEN, (I can see where this whole thing is going folks) as the final coup-de-gras we will get ads with NO other content after!
Your ever-vigilant reporter is watching out for you and me and it's a good thing there is someone to keep an eye on these bastards.
What I'm talking about is commercials on UTube! (Ya, that's what I'm talkin' about!)
There was a time when they just had stationary ads on the page and you could look at them as you were searching for a song or listening to it.
But like everything else on the Internet advertising became more and more insidious..... and those diabolical ad-men found new and better ways to grab our attention!
First, they had 3, 4 or 5-second ads at the start of a video clip.... and these were not intrusive enough to cause anyone great concern..... so they were gradually added to EVERY clip on the Site!
Then they went to 15-second or (gasp) 30-second ads.... but you had the option of deleting them after 5 seconds.... so this was also within the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
NOW, they are gradually sneaking in 15-second ads that ya CAN'T delete and they are starting to become a pain in the ass.
Eventually, we will become so conditioned to this assault on our senses that every bit we want to watch on UTube will subject us to a 30 second or one-minute commercial before we can even see anything........ and the worst part is that we will not even object!
THEN, (I can see where this whole thing is going folks) as the final coup-de-gras we will get ads with NO other content after!
The way I see it anyway!
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