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I wouldn't mind sitting through an ad or possibly another one mid-video.
Small issue with that for me is that their ads are privacy nightmare but what isn't these days..
Biggest issue is that their ads are ridiculously annoying and so inappropriate. They just don't even try. They are sexist, fraudulent, and often times plain illegal.
So unless they fix these issues, I won't watch them without ads blocked.
I agree and I also wouldn’t mind so much if the ads were in proportion to the length of the video and at natural breaks. I don’t want to watch a 30 second ad to see a 15 second video.
As much as I hate that prime added ads to a paid service (absolute horse shit), the way they've implemented it so far is one of the better methods. They'll do a single ad at the beginning that's like "this show is brought to you uninterrupted by Samsung". Then no more ads until the next episode.
YouTube is trash with it.
For now. That’s how YouTube was originally too, and ad free before that.
Seriously. YouTube is at its current place because it actually didn't suck ass.
You're ok with paying to watch ads? Hard pass for me.