Mega-Fires

I would watch the video clips but I hate your commercials!

I agree with martinhh. Maybe if the commercials were 5 seconds versus 30 seconds, I'd wait to watch the video clips. I see enough commercials on TV, why do I need to see it online too!=X

Cant do it... sit at a computer and watch commercials! Thats why I dont have a tee vee! This is my first effort at watching news on the computer. Looks like it will be my last. Atleast for this site. Too bad.

TO MANY COMMERCIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The newscasts are extremely short. The commercials are actually longer then the content. It makes it difficult to view. If the ratio of time between content and commercials were better it wouldn't be so annoying.

OH GIVE ME A BREAK....I am sick and tired of this GLOBAL WARMING Crap, Ok, so we are in a very slight warming trend, do some damn research and you will see that we have had WARMER periods of time, and just a few decades ago we were hearing about GLOBAL COOLING..plus anyone who takes ANYTHING on 60 minutes or CBS News at face value the last ten years is making a big mistake.

Sorry, but I'm not interested in watching some lame commercial. If I click on a link for a "news item", I want to see the news, not some cheesy commercial. If I wanted to watch lame commercials, I'd turn on the Weather Channel. The commercials are as annoying as (and not that much different from) pop-ups.

Stop the bloody commercials after every second clip or give me an opt-out button!!!!!!!! I would never use any of these products as a result... When the most beautiful desert flowers appeared this Spring, one could anticipate this would be the result. I lived in Malibu during the last fire and it is likely my former house fell victim this week. When you have a climate condition created by ocean temperatures in the 50s-60s so close to desert temps in the 90s-100+ you will always have winds and underbrush that feeds these monsters. The only thing that will stop them is the ocean or a wind shift. Maybe if we stopped building structures in their path to enjoy the views we would have less fuel.

Please boycott the commercial providers and keep posting objections. It is the only way Yahoo! will stop or listen. Yahoo! seems to think this is the new economic model. Do not support it and demand as consumers your right to opt out and keep the Web either commercial free or let the viewer choose to view what you will. Write to their news providers (AP, Reuters, CNN, CBS, etc.) and complain. It has gotten worse in the last few weeks and you need to exert pressure as well.

Also express your outrage directly to the commercial providers themselves. Hundreds of e-mails to Johnson and Johnson (Listerine's parent company), Ameritrade and others will force them to re-think their strategy and hopefully remove their placements. Cut the head off of this hydra before it gets out of control further. I cannot even set up my BT Yahoo homepage with my own content without being exposed to commercials. My way around it is to move the content I really want to see below the fold so the adverts blast away into empty space !!! Get creative and fight back!