ads before watching online videos..

[chrome_sturmen]

i have noticed these days that i can no longer watch a video clip or music video without first being forced to watch some stupid ad. why should this be so? why is everything that was once cool, taken, commercialised and generally ~Phrase removed~ up?

please explain

[The Seeker]

Ad Muncher is great for getting rid of these ads. I've been using it for almost five years now and wouldn't be without it.

[chrome_sturmen]

hehe, thanks for the advice, but i dont mean ads rendered while a page loads, i mean video advertisements that must be seen before your selected video plays (like ads on tv)

[euphoria]

...but I think that's what The Seeker was talking about. Ad Muncher eliminates the video ads.

[The Seeker]

Exactly. Ad Muncher is able to remove many ads within videos.

[chrome_sturmen]

really? if so thats quite cool, although i find that admuncher is sometimes overzealous with its blocking, so i cant use it as a regular blocker, but maybe i could here and there on demand when youtubing etc. thanks for the advices!

[chrome_sturmen]

anywhere where people congregate, there is always some stupid entity trying to force ads on us, its somethin i dont like in life. im astounded they havent found a way to feed ads to us whilst on the toilet

[MikeBCda]

Not online videos per se, but I've noticed that an increasing number of DVD movies I've purchased from Amazon are starting to include anti-smoking clips among the trailers, and in a couple of case there's even a commercial ad or two. Is the smoking thing a new government requirement? (I'm in Canada and buy from Amazon Canada)

[chrome_sturmen]

you guys think and ad-tracking hosts file would block out ads within videoclips??

[SIR****TMG]

Ad Muncher is the answer.

[cheater87]

Adblock Plus helps also.

[LowWaterMark]

Off-topic posts removed. The topic is "ads running at the start of online videos," so, let's stick to that.

[chrome_sturmen]

i use opera, so i cant use adblock plus, i do however use fanboy's urlfilter.ini to block ads with opera, also i run opera through proxomitron, which of course has a plentitude of adblocking methods, but i guess these measures dont affect the above mentioned pre-video ads. i wonder if a small ad-tracking hosts file would help

[siberianwolf]

Originally Posted by chrome_sturmen

anywhere where people congregate, there is always some stupid entity trying to force ads on us, its somethin i dont like in life. im astounded they havent found a way to feed ads to us whilst on the toilet

how about the ads on the doors of bathrooms in malls? there's usually a lot of ads on them. on the walls over the urinals, as well. and don't forget the cc-radio stations constantly playing in bathrooms, too.

[bigc73542]

One thing you have to consider is that even though the ads are a pain in the neck they have to pay for the videos some how. Would you rather that you had to pay to watch them??

[chrome_sturmen]

there are only 3 things relating to computers that i pay for my friend

1- my usenet account 2- a hotfile premium account, and 3- my videobox account

best,

chrome

[Judge Dee]

Originally Posted by chrome_sturmen

there are only 3 things relating to computers that i pay for my friend

1- my usenet account 2- a hotfile premium account, and 3- my videobox account

best,

chrome

And that's exactly why there are ads.
Sites like Hulu aren't in existence to have fun. They're running a business.