You might have noticed YouTube adding the "You can skip this ad in 5 seconds" bit, and playing a video ad before the original video starts playing.

The amount of time wasted by people waiting to skip the ads is tremendous. YouTube is now literally making people waste their precious time before the "treat". And because we are dependant on YouTube we just take it, and wait those 5 seconds.

For a decent viral ad with 1 million views, 1388 manhours are wasted on just skipping the ad (assuming everybody skips the ad).

... As if there isn't enough time being wasted in YouTube land already (referring to all the crappy videos, not the cool sift worthy ones of course).

Rabble Rabble!