New YouTube Ads + Fullscreen Behaviour: No Thanks!
Dear YouTubeimeanGoogle,
Your new video ads really, really suck. Do I need to see the ad every time I reload the page? The same ad? Over, and over and over? You guys know what cookies are, right?
Oh, and why, you might ask, am I reloading the page so frequently? Well I'm not - you are. You see, when I hit that little fullscreen button, your stupid technology doesn't realize that I'm already in the middle of watching a fully buffered clip. It thinks it's smarter than me (it's not, btw), and says, "Hey! You're going fullscreen. You must want to watch one of these higher-definition versions of the same clip!" So my fully-buffered video goes away, and I now have to wait for the entire clip to download all over again.
But wait! There's more! Our Internet connectivity here is so pitiful that the I have to hit pause and wait for the entire clip to buffer - assuming it does fully buffer - before we get a timeout or a reset or just a plain old hang. At which point I do what, Google? I exit fullscreen to get the lower definition video, and I hit reload. And reload does what, Google?
Goto line 2;