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by acavailhez 5343 days ago
I agree with that, it is quite similar to what they did with youtube and the unbearing amount of ad that one has to endure before watching a video now, after 5 years+ of making it available free of annoyance.
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Uploaders of videos can enable/disable the inStream ads. They are not required by Google. http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=1...
I don't have to bear one second of Youtube ads. (Thank you AdBlock!)

The "Shark Week" ad that literally screamed at me at 11PM was the straw that broke my mental back. I immediately installed AdBlock.

Some video ads (on YouTube and elsewhere) can detect AdBlock and refuse to play the video.