<human>: Can you provide a brief overview of the text?

When I click on a link to a video, if there is an advertisement that will run for more than 5 seconds, I'd say that about half the time I'll close the webpage immediately. I'm sure I'm not alone, in this internet age of short attention spans.

If I'm not sure how great a video will be, but decide to give it a shot, most times I will close it real fast if theres an ad at the beginning. In my head, I hope that somehow the video poster will get some sort of statistics on these kind of hits. Then, if too large a percentage of the hits are closing the page, they will realize that the advertisement is too long or obtrusive, relative to the supposed content that will be provided by said video.

I guess my reasoning is along the lines of the "voting with your dollars" theory. If I was an advertiser paying some guy making youtube videos, I would not expect to pay that guy for any hit in which my advertisement was not played fully. Then, in my perfect internet world, once the youtube guy notices this bad trend, he will decide to switch to shorter ad to gain more viewers.
<bot>: Am I making any sort of difference in the world by closing a website when I deem an ad obtrusive? or will Advertisers pay a website even if it is closed and only a second of it is watched?