And I consider them bad advertisers and just don't care.
We had the internet without ads. Then we had the internet with small banner ads, that didn't track users but were there because of the page content. Then those ads moved from text/image to animated gif, and they became annoying. Then flash was used and it became a security concern. Then the number of ads went up and up, video was introduced, autoplaying, with audio, and at some point most of the internet is unusable without an adblock. It's not something we, the users, wanted, the advertisers (google included) made the internet unusable without an adblock, and that includes 3 25 second ads on a 1m20s video on youtube.
If advertisers returned to non-animated banners above/below the video, we wouldn't have to install adblocks everywhere anymore, and people would see the ad without wanting to kill the advertiser for bad intrusive advertising practices.
They started it, they went too far, we're just reacting to what they're doing. And as we've seen with other platforms, even paying for premium doesn't mean no-ads. And still an adblock is needed to remove the in-video ads ("this video is sponsored by shadow vpn audible").
We had the internet without ads. Then we had the internet with small banner ads, that didn't track users but were there because of the page content. Then those ads moved from text/image to animated gif, and they became annoying. Then flash was used and it became a security concern. Then the number of ads went up and up, video was introduced, autoplaying, with audio, and at some point most of the internet is unusable without an adblock. It's not something we, the users, wanted, the advertisers (google included) made the internet unusable without an adblock, and that includes 3 25 second ads on a 1m20s video on youtube.
If advertisers returned to non-animated banners above/below the video, we wouldn't have to install adblocks everywhere anymore, and people would see the ad without wanting to kill the advertiser for bad intrusive advertising practices.
They started it, they went too far, we're just reacting to what they're doing. And as we've seen with other platforms, even paying for premium doesn't mean no-ads. And still an adblock is needed to remove the in-video ads ("this video is sponsored by shadow vpn audible").