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Re:Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long ... by X-Istence on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:57PM (#15926302)
I've noticed that FB started inserting ads about 10 seconds into playing a video. Now when I see the "about to start ad" I just go to the next video and skip it.

Ads before videos just means I won't be watching videos on Facebook.

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Re:Facebook Will Introduce Ads as Videos Start, a Move Long ... by marinman on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:04PM (#15928132)
I'm in the same boat for the first part. I'll be thumbing through my feed and see some quasi-interesting video but no matter how great it is, when I see that "about to start ad" text, I just scroll on. Like on YouTube, I could watch a pre-roll if I really, really want to watch it.
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