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It's YouTube. Whether you get no ad, an ad skippable after 5 seconds, an un-skippable 15 second ad, or an un-skippable longer ad varies. I'm currently getting a skippable after 5 seconds ad.

This may also depend on what ad blocker you are using. At least one popular ad blocker [1] sometimes fails to block the "skippable after 5 second" ads but DOES block the "skip this ad" overlay. To make that even more annoying, I think that the "skippable after 5 second" ads are often long ads so the result is people without an ad blocker get 5 seconds of the ad, and people with that ad blocker get get the full thing!

[1] I'm not naming it because I was trying out different ad blockers on different machines to see which met my needs best, and I don't recall for sure which one it was.



What? There are unskippable long ads? Those are possible?

The ad blocker theory makes sense.

Though I'll always be amused at some of the skippable hour-long ads youtube has given me.




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