Bangkok Post – Advertising ruins everything

Remember this day because I have a prediction. Recently, for the first time, I had two ads appear when watching a Rumble video. Rumble is a YouTube alternative that until now had been ad free. The platform allows those banned by YouTube for political reasons to make their presentations, along with anyone else who wants to post videos. My prediction is that the current ads, currently 30 second ones you can skip after a few seconds that appear at the start of your video, will gradually become more prevalent and longer, without being able to skip, and eventually will become as annoying as Facebook.

– It’s the nature of things that when a company starts to get some income from a different source that it will eventually try and maximise this income, just like the now out of control ad crazy YouTube. I hope I’m wrong.

– A significant number, and I’ve heard as much as 30%,…