Catching up on my online TV watching and I have noticed more commercials slipping in to the videos now. Quite frankly I’m getting sick of them, I’m sick of watching Youtube videos and having advertisements before them, sick of watching any news clip and having to watch an advertisement before that, sick of google reading through my emails and giving me advertisements based on what it thinks I like. I understand that someone has to pay for the content but it’s just getting ridiculous. What next, force me to watch a 2 minute clip before I can read a site? —AdvertfreeCanada
This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 2011.
Ummm….what’s your point?
Dare I speak for the OP?
That it’s freaking annoying, Hugo.
Great bitch.
Ads are why I believe paying for cable TV is a sign of mental illness.
You’re paying to watch a channel that has already been paid to carry advertisements, that you don’t want or rarely pay attention to !
Yeah well youtube and other online tv sites don’t pay for themselves.
It’s free, OP so STFU. Would you rather pay for a subscription or watch a 30 second ad?
Jesus Christ people will whine about anything these days. FFS.
OP, torrents.
snoop – Ummm….what’s your point?
You had to see that comming, no?
Seriously, bitching abot commercials on a free site is like bitching about bird poop on your car, usless and stupid.
The site is free to you because of paid advertisement.
Oh BTW, you get to read The Coast free, both hardcopy and online because of the massive advertisement they have. Check out the number of pages of ads compared to actual content.
… haha hugo & tim: snoop is probably at her computer right now writing a novel-length response to your comments, yo’.
YOU JUST WAIT FOR IT. heh.
OP is dumb as bricks. Their handle says it all “advertfreecanada”… yeah, because everything pays for itself (free non-cable tv stations, free newspapers, youtube, network internet tv sites…).
Fucking toolbag.
The same people who think university should be free. Now if university was “free” who would have to pay for the buildings, grounds, equipment, staff, books, room and board, etc? Why the taxpayer of course. Say an average of $20,000 per student per year for a 4 year degree which is $80,000 per degree. In 2009, there were 870,000 full time students. The cost for one year would be about $17,400,000,000, that’s right $17.4 BILLION dollars. Now if it were free, the student population could easily triple. Now what would that do to you tax bill?
If University was “free” more people would go, thus devaluing my degrees.
if it were up to me, I’d make it even more expensive and more exclusive. the less people with degrees, the better it is for me.
I actually agree with the OP, while I know that sites and content don’t pay for themselves, I rather have the ads on the sides and what not than having to watch a commercial. Even the annoying expanding ads are better than trying to watch the same commercials over and over again.
Hell it wouldn’t even be as bad if they had more than one or two commercials looping. Sometimes, on sites like CTV and GlobalTV, the same commercial comes on TWICE in a row. I remember about two weeks ago I was watching an episode and that Scream 4 trailer was the only commercial that was playing. The only one! When it gets to be annoying like that, I rather just download it or watch it on TV Shack or something like that. At least there its only one ad, you close it and voila!
rant over.
Shush up. Keep the ads. I looooove my free television in exchange for a 30 second commercial (sometimes less) while people pay sooo much per month for cable and have to watch like 3-5 minutes of commercials and can’t pick what they want to watch when they want to. It doesn’t make sense! Whenever I go to my mom’s for a visit, there is never anything on her hundreds of channels, except for like Maury or something and there’s no way I’d pay for Maury ;D!
I think bitching about bird poop on your car is fine and dandy.
they have to have them in there. how else will companies be able to sell their high priced crap to the suckers? and speaking of which, most are targeted at kids, to get the parents to buy, or looks like absolute fucking monsters. nice way to sell shit hey.
Well, i guess some of us have better things to do, snoop, than bitch about stupid shit.
But to each their own. 🙂
500 post goes too… defending this bitch.
an advert free canada would be possible if they adopted what the beeb in the uk does, a small license fee and then bam advert free tv, advert free website, advert free radio, oh i miss them days. Sure the other channels had addys but meh i love the quality the beeb put out.
I think the worst part is that every news video you want to watch now has an advert in front of it, watch a 30 second clip of the same shit for a snippet of information.
Calling people fucktards over this is pretty ricockulous.
Oh come-on now!!! Who could have a bitch about birds 🙁
Don’t they have it hard enough in life without us shitting on them (pun), especally the males. Think of all those poor little guys, done up in bright colours so the predators can see them better , only one testicle, and no penis, all that on top of diarrhea for life. =0
Bird – I wanna fly.
God – OK, but it’ll cost you.
Apparently none of us have anything better to do than write comments about how stupid and pointless every bitch is.
If they need ads, there’s plenty of room off screen. Lots of free sites don’t require you to sit through an advertisment before you can get to the content on the site, or if they do you can at least click out of them right away. Youtube only lets you skip it a certain amount of time into the ad, but only sometimes. After so many years of using YouTube with no required advertisment watching, having to turn down your speakers in a panic everytime one of the overly loud ads ambushes you is fucking annoying. I’d almost rather the ads be consistent instead of randomly playing after a string of ad free videos lulls you into a false sense of security. And it’s always the same three ads over and over again… ugh.
They should just stick to silent picture ads off to the side, it’ll muck up their page a little, but it’s freaking YouTube, ad space anywhere on that site is going to sell well video or not. I think being user friendly is more important than looking slick. But to each their own 🙂
90% of internet users are using AdBlock Plus, why aren’t you?
I am now!
“Apparently none of us have anything better to do than write comments about how stupid and pointless every bitch is.”
oh snap
And, you realize, snoop, that the ads on the sides of the pages don’t pay off as much as the ones before the videos, right? You’ll pay a lot more for one of those ads than one of the sidebar ads.
But hay, I’m sure you’d all be for subscription fees to use youtube or watch online streaming content on sites such as ctv.ca, wouldn’t ya? Nah, more like you’d be the first one to write a novel-length bitch about it.
So you know for a fact that it’s impossible for YouTube to keep itself afloat with just side ads?
I don’t buy it, if they did side ads, they’d have way more ads up, and they would be visible constantly. Plus YouTube is extremely popular, I can easily see people paying through their noses just to have a square inch of that site.
Sure, they’d still stay afloat, but currently, they’re not going to give up the revenue that brings in just because some people find it annoying (and others, could give two shits). And if they did, you can say hello to subscription fees.
I haven’t done any scientific research on this, butttt I’d bet my cat most people would rather sit through a 20-30 second ad than PAY out of their pockets to use youtube.
Advertising was needed to support the site, and now it’s just expanded onto a more profitable method. Those who don’t like it, can get into a time machine and go live in the USSR.
Fucking commies.