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Re:YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads by camus2 on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:16PM (#13671774)
> Look, bandwidth costs money.

For the user too, do you think people have unlimited data plans? I'm not paying to see ads.

> Don't be an asshole.

Because insults are going to rally people to your cause?

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Re:YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads by ReverseCold on Friday February 17, 2017 @09:32PM (#13673309)
> do you think people have unlimited data plans

My phone has unlimited data (only plan advertised by T-Mobile) but it's possible for my home internet not to be (restriction removed on the gigabit plan, which I have).

So if the company only cares about the US then...

"Hahaha yyolo rigt?!1!" - some exec

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Re:YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads by hasenj on Friday February 17, 2017 @09:23PM (#13673287)
You're getting the videos for free ...

So that's a weird excuse.

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