I never saw the ads. Can someone link me?

"TubeStop Extension: stops YouTube ads the wired
Link #132111 submitted by Mac on Aug 23, 2007 05:13pm. (+150XP)
http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/08/22/tubestop-also-stops-youtube-ads
The TubeStop Firefox extension that I wrote in order to stop YouTube videos from auto-playing also has the serendipitous side-effect of removing ads from YouTube videos.

Since YouTube is only serving ads through the player on their main site, and not on the embeddable/syndicated player, and TubeStop works by replacing YouTube's native player with the embeddable version, you won't see any ads when you're using TubeStop."
Found on Linkswarm.com

hahahahahahahaha

ads really are stooopid.

also i thought that the ads are only north america right now... i haven't seen any.

all i know is, if you put something between me and the content, i'm gone. there's other content. this is not tv, this is not the seventies, get with the program.

Mashable had this on Firefox's TubeStop:

http://mashable.com/2007/08/23/tubestop/

If it's a site such as this that I care about ads don't bother me, I've even enabled certain sites common to one I use a lot to help support them. I'd like it to be my choice though.

Used to be I didn't care about ads, then that spinning/flashing crap started, then flash ads on a never ending loop, overlays floating across the screen, and so on. I rebelled, decided I was totally sick of them and starting using every filter technology I could starting with the hosts file. Almost never see an ad anymore, if they hadn't been so pushy I'd still see them all.

If they wanted us to care maybe they shouldn't have tried forcibly shoving it down our throats in ever more annoying and harder to avoid streams of ads. I don't like aggressive people, period, and it's hard not to see business in general that way these days. Too pushy, too aggressive, too self serving. They worked hard for that reputation, they'll have to work to fix it too.

*discard

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