Hooray! Google has managed to destroy what was once great about Youtube.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6958103.stm
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The adverts will begin 15 seconds after a user has started to watch a video, but only on 20% of the screen window.
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Hopefully this spells the beginning of the end of YouTube. Sites without ads will be getting my traffic. There is simply no place for commercials in my life. I have a DVR for watching TV, my Firefox and host file block banner advertising on the web, and my DVD player is old school so I can skip by all the crap to the main menu right from the get go. I haven't listened to the radio since MP3's came out.
Don't throw up the argument "they need revenue to support the site" either. YouTube was doing just fine BEFORE they started taking up 20% of the screen with crap.