Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings

Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by sleepydog on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:09PM (#24936693)

I think it definitely depends on the channel. Most of the videos I watch only have one or two ads.

What I really hate are the very long ads that you have to skip manually. Sometimes we play something on the TV while we're cooking so we're not by the remote to skip them, and they can be really egregious, like 15 minute ads.

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by mcaravey on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:29PM (#24936874)

I had an hour long ad show up a couple of weeks ago. It was basically a film on some health/food product, but I had never seen something so over the top like that before.

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by dylan604 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:55PM (#24938289)

This needs to die in a fire. Like the parent comment said, I will sometimes allow ads to play through if I'm away from the remote expecting the actual content to continue after a 30 second interruption. When you suddenly have the "channel" changed on you from something like this it needs to stop. Hell, I can't even listen to a full album in YT without a "are you still here" after 4 or 5 tracks. That "are you still watching" should come up multiple times in the ad by itself. Maybe the popup should be "Are you still watching? Why?"

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