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Amazon is going to battle with YouTube (time.com).

Indeed, which most with any sense watch without them with aid of any ad blocker which has not yet been bought out by mystery buyer.

But what happens without ads, as with the reminder on the time.com article if you have an ad blocker enabled? It will “break Time”. Indeed, or perhaps just encourage a look for something else aside from advertising which has been shown to be a game of diminishing returns and bandwidth-eating user annoyance if not worse from sites not efficiently keeping an eye on any suspect ads that may leave a lil’ package of not-so-malware-fun on drive-by-download or even just do a Rupe (Murdoch) and close door at a loss (remember MySpace?) or The Current Bun (The Sun)—went Paywall, broke Pick of the Week links, then changed its mind, went back to trying to tempt you with footie and bingo and ads. Actually though, I’m not that certain that the ads were or were not there whether you paid to get behind the wall or not.

Oh, wait, I though we were talking about video and not ads…. Yeah, the content really is secondary for some isn’t it, indeed being the “product” itself.

But for those that maintain ads are “harmless” this tasteful “body shaming” and get-rich-quick roundup—one click away from the MSN portals’ “promoted stories” might make you re… *shudder* at least.

I’m *hoping* that’s his ear she’s pullin’. Or, indeed, even these choice sponsored picks on the portals sliding stories front page itself:

For sure, the words “lowest, common,” and “denominator” spring to mind. Or how about these?

Indeed, “read this before browsing the internet” without our purchasable VPN which unfortunatey shares name with notorious “SaferWeb” malware (they are infact different “products” though just to make clear, but may scare the pants off you if you look up a review after rather than before purchase). And PPI claims; indeed, I was fortunate enough to be reimbursed less than a month ago but by a much “extreamly simpler” method known as checking my statement—God knows how I missed it so long though—and first thing bank in question said when initiating soon-successful claim over the phone was “go through us rather than any of the companies advertising who wish to take a large cut”.

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