[throwaways885]

I would assume Google would prefer to not piss off the millions of adblock using techies (including journalists) if that can be avoided.

[wooger]

Seriously, youtube is absolutely unusable for me with ads, they completely destroy the experience and I'd just do something else if forced to see them.

In the UK, for TV we have limits on the number and total minutes of ads per hour, youtube needs to look at these.