Youtube is becoming cable television regarding advertisements. Advertisements are increasing in frequency and duration. Time is a highly valuable resource. Lost time is never found again.<p>If I'm not mistaken, generally a 30 minute cable television program in the United States has around 7 - 9 minutes of advertisements.<p>Advertisements are frequently necessary for companies to offer free products. However, when the advertisements jeopardize the integrity of the product, it's a problem for me. The net experience on Youtube has gone down.<p>It's only fair to put this in perspective. Youtube is not the worst advertising or video experience compared to other websites. Many news websites come to mind with un-skippable ads. I focus on Youtube because of their scale and influence.<p>I hope there isn't a day where downloading a Youtube video locally, and then watching it, saves you more time than viewing all of the mandatory advertisements. /s<p>Thoughts?