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However, what I'm actually seeing is something completely opposite. Eager to find a way to monetize the service, YouTube has added annoying ads at the bottom of the actual video, the search bar sometimes shows its ugly head on top of the video, video annotations pop up here and there, and folks who are trying to leverage YouTube's huge userbase and make a buck are reencoding popular videos with their ugly logos.
The result is this:
(Before you ask, I know it's 2008, there's nothing wrong with a little classic rock.)