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How do you skip or remove the opening commercial?

YouTube ads skippable in 3 seconds are more or less OK, but these run for whooping 1:30 with no option to skip. That's really pushing it.

Why would you? Running a video streaming service is hardly free. It is only like 30 sec of advertisement.

If you really wanted you could use an ad blocker.

I'm surprised there's people here that don't.

I don't -- I put up with ads because it's the way people online who produce content get paid.

Sure, a lot of people take advantage of spamming ads, but if it bothers me enough, I just wont revisit their content.

I'd venture to say there are more people here interested in the old-fashioned notion of a noble hacker than in the subversive form of the term.

> Why would you?

Because I am not interested in what they are offering and I know this after first 2 seconds.

It's not 30 seconds, it's 90.

I'd use AdBlock but it's an iPad.