Apart from being relevant they need something like "view this later" or "remind me later about this" because as you say you don't want to stop watching the video.
I think that would be better received by users and provide more information to advertisers. I *might* be interested in something and allowing me to interact with the ad in that way is going to provide advertisers with better information.

Advertising at the beginning would really turn people off.

I used to withhold votes for anything that had a commercial in it. That's starting to be impractical. I have to admit that lightobject.com was very interesting to me. Thanks!

It's funny you did a screengrab of that video in particular, because I was thinking the same damn thing when I was watching that video, too. But my ad (not a joke) read "Is My Husband Gay?".

And I thought about who that ad was meant to target. And then I thought about who that video is meant to target. I then became very confused and died a little inside.

So, ... how gay are your husbands?

Google is tarnishing their ad business by providing these popups.

I can't stand ads. I pine for the days when the internet was ad-free. Now, you've got banners, popups, ads in videos, etc, etc.

I'm waiting for the ad within an ad.

The days when the internet was ad-free were also the days when there were only two dozen internet servers run by either the US Military or universities.

BBC videos (outside UK) already get an ad in advance..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2PgX_iIPvw
Any more channels that have them?

So is that amazon thingy working for us? I actually find that useful because I trust the members here more than some algorithm.

The "Is your husband gay" one is wearing me down... I'm actually getting curious about how one would know...

I mean, do you send them $25 dollars and they send you a piece of paper that says, "Does he enjoy sex with men?"

I think "is your husband gay" is an interesting sociological phenomenon. I read it to mean that there's a whole bunch of women out there that would rather contemplate that their husbands are gay and don't want to have sex with them, than consider that maybe it's because they've become fat nags.

I'd like to point out that this is not reflective of my personal life in any way whatsoever.