Once bitten...
If I go to those ad-laden sites, I just never go back again. Sort of defeats their purpose of drowning us in ads.
In my early years, in radio, we played ads, too...but we were careful to not get so obnoxious with it that people would turn off their radio. There was (then) an 18-minutes of ads, per hour, limit.
There’s a lot of Youtube videos I’d like to view, but as soon as I see all those little yellow “ad spacers”, I leave the site.
If your *content* is worth viewing, then a flood of ads make it unwatchable.
Some sites Drudge leads you to will start two and three videos at the same time when you open the page.
Yep.
For u-toob I use an older version of Pale-Moon where the add-on app VideoDownloader still works. I download those videos and watch them from my local hard drive. I never see the ads.