I discovered this in preparing the Sorcha post below. It contains three Rumble videos. The first and third videos have the really long ads (3+ minutes) up front. I see no way to skip the ad. I never saw this behavior before today.

Because of this I used my alternative method to embed the videos, which avoids the ad. This method has the advantage that the videos actually appear on iPhones and iPads. This method only works on Rumble, and I don't like to use it routinely, for fear Rumble will notice and disable it.

YouTube is much better. Their ads don't appear at all on embeds, like on RMN, and even on the YouTube site ads can usually be skipped after 5 seconds for ads longer than 15 seconds.

I wonder if Rumble is having financial problems or something.

If this continues I may have to use Bitchute exclusively for posting the X22 Report, for example. That is, unless Bitchute has started doing the same thing.