# 30,000 players

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**Created:** [March 3, 2024, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/30-000-players/441584 "2024-03-03T08:29:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/30-000-players/441584/22 "2024-03-04T00:14:18Z")

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> **[YouTube is killing the overlay ad format next month](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/youtube-is-killing-the-overlay-ad-format-next-month/)**
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> Annoying banner ads that cover videos are getting the boot.

I guess they killed them recently? I was getting them all the time for EVE ever since I started posting again in 2020, until YouTube’s new ad policies made me say “enough” and take extreme anti-ad measures with Brave and scripts a few months ago. One day a few months ago I got a 44-minute unskippable ad for an 8-minute streamer VOD, and that was it for me.

I rarely get YouTube ads now, but occasionally a 15-30 second spot makes it through. One of them is this annoying, abstract EVE ad I’ve [made fun of in a post recently](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/stupid-ad-who-made-this/434950/81?page=5).

Edit:

Just tried experimenting with stock Edge, and when watching a random game trailer, this was in the lower-left corner:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/a/3/5/a35017c09de857cb1933b5445b3b1c31ed67daf9.png)

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