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While watching videos in Dailymotion on my mobile phone, I get two non-skippable 20-second advertisements per ~5 minutes!

After the advertisements finished, the video starts over, so I have to seek the last playback spot again! A bug, apparently.

Very intrusive.

Of course, some advertisements are funny or could present a useful product. But often, Dailymotion showed me the same advertisement >10 times.

Websites harass users with intrusive advertisements and then whine when people use ad blockers. Don't be surprised.

If it were non-intrusive (1× 15sec per 10 minutes, resume playback at last position, as intended), it would be perfectly acceptable. But not how it is now.

Just had to get this off my mind.

While watching videos in Dailymotion on my mobile phone, I get **two non-skippable 20-second advertisements per ~5 minutes!** After the advertisements finished, the video starts over, so I have to seek the last playback spot again! A bug, apparently. ## **Very intrusive.** Of course, some advertisements are funny or could present a useful product. But often, **Dailymotion showed me the same advertisement >10 times.** Websites harass users with intrusive advertisements and then whine when people use ad blockers. Don't be surprised. If it were non-intrusive (1× 15sec per 10 minutes, resume playback at last position, as intended), it would be perfectly acceptable. But not how it is now. Just had to get this off my mind.

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Side note:

I actually whitelist pages I encounter that show acceptable advertisements.

Pages such as:

  • Poal.co (in case they use ads in future)
  • Search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ask)
  • YouTube (mostly)
  • Mainly text-based social media websites (e.g. Twitter, even Reddit)
  • StackExchange network pages
  • Quora

…currently have acceptable advertisements, because they all have one thing in common:

They don't temporarily soft-lock the user (block the screen / the content) for long, or at all. They just stand there by the side.

But Dailymotion's advertisements are currently not acceptable, because they add unskippable 40-second breaks per 5 minutes, often showing the same thing.