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mojo
16th May 2014, 18:04
Anyone else notice? It appears that there are two wide grey columns on either side of the image area. My guess is that space will end-up being future advertizing..:(
...always prided my channel on the fact there was no advertizing.
joeecho
16th May 2014, 18:20
They must be testing it out in certain markets I am not seeing the grey columns.

I have notice a recent issue with YouTube inconsistently loading videos so maybe it's currently being implemented here.

It will be a shame if they go the same route as Facebook/ excessive ads. If ads distract from the video there will be no point to YouTube IMO. Irrelevance coming soon?
Isserley
16th May 2014, 18:48
You can bolck all advertisements on all web pages, even Facebook and Youtube via AdBlock browser extension - works great for me.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock
shadowstalker
16th May 2014, 18:51
Those grey areas use to be space for background pix remember? but they don't let you do that anymore.

Slightly off topic but still youtube:
I also noticed that I only got 2 views on my latest MIB vid when I know that folks here try to keep up with my MIB research, so my numbers should Be much much higher.
I also noticed that I have 4 subscribers but 3 are in stealth mode, I am wondering what that is really all about.
mojo
16th May 2014, 21:32
Those grey areas use to be space for background pix remember? but they don't let you do that anymore

yes that is exactly it...ty shadowstalker, I noticed when my channel name was cut-off how much they took away.
Cardillac
17th May 2014, 00:23
what I'm noticing the most, at least here in Germany, is that Google Chrome (also Firefox) is now reverting to Yahoo! for its (their) internet connections/searches and I'm at the moment only able to access ProjectAvalon with browser Opera- guess it's sort of fitting- I'm an opera singer by profession... :-)
risveglio
17th May 2014, 17:08
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what I'm noticing the most, at least here in Germany, is that Google Chrome (also Firefox) is now reverting to Yahoo! for its (their) internet connections/searches and I'm at the moment only able to access ProjectAvalon with browser Opera- guess it's sort of fitting- I'm an opera singer by profession... :-)

Are you sure you can't just change the settings in Firefox? Mine is set to duckduck go but I can choose to up to 10 search engines from the toolbar. Attached an image above.