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Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-interrupt-your-regularly-scheduled-inanity dept.

theodp writes "What could be more annoying than having ads precede online videos? How about having commercials interrupt the videos? That's the premise behind a newly-published Google patent application for Using Viewing Signals in Targeted Video Advertising."

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  1. Re:Sounds like an abuse cool technology by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 3, Funny

    It could be worse.. it could be patented by Apple!

    Then anyone who suggested it might be wrong would be modded into oblivion.