I visited the Discover site to see the outakes and extras for Mythbusters.\u00c2\u00a0 Most were only a few minutes long, but every one started with a 30 second commercial that couldn’t be bypassed.\u00c2\u00a0 I watched a couple of clips, and left, never to return.<\/p>\n
I’m seeing this more and more on video sites.\u00c2\u00a0 First it was pop-up ads.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re annoying, but there’s usually a little X that lets you turn them off.\u00c2\u00a0 But now sites are insisting we watch commercials before they bless us with their video.\u00c2\u00a0 Screw that.<\/p>\n
The one place I will put up with commercials is Hulu.com.\u00c2\u00a0 They play entire episodes of shows, and add one commercial where the show originally had commercial breaks.\u00c2\u00a0 (They also have entire movies, but I haven’t watched any, so don’t know how they do commercials on them.) Most are thirty seconds long and some are only ten or fifteen.\u00c2\u00a0 Occasionally they’ll offer the option of watching one sixty second commercial at the start of the show and then present the rest of it commercial free, which is pretty cool.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s worth it to watch Babylon 5 or Arrested Development.<\/p>\n
But for every place else, forget it.\u00c2\u00a0 The internet is about choice, not force, and if you think you can force me to watch an annoying commercial before I can watch your short clip, you’re wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m outta there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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