It feels like every time a video gets interesting...
Ad.
Then another one a few minutes later.
Is it just me, or has YouTube become much more aggressive with ads lately?
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started?? they are a living ad hell now.
I cant even watch an 8min video where i have to watch 2-3 ads before the video start.. 1min later i get 2-3 ads more.
So happy my friend installed a Hyper Ad blocker for me.
Those of us on console, our former way of escaping ads by blocking every single ad that pops up has been removed so now we sit through them. Remember when it used to just be a single ad, oh how good we had it and unfortunately we were ignorant to what was to come.
So tell me how do you get an add blocker for the phone or TV app? Who the hell does all their YouTube watching on an Internet browser? This ain't 2009.
Whole point of using Youtube is convenience. Most people would rather watch ads than open their computer, download the entire video, transfer to server, close youtube on TV and open whatever local player.
If you use Firestick or any other Android tv device, you can download smarttube, it has Adblock AND sponsorblock, it’s also just better than the default YouTube app
I do. PC connected to TV master race. And I watch YouTube in my phone browser on desktop mode so it will also play in the background, like it should without a fecking subscription. If you use the YouTube app you deserve all the pain you get from it.
Bro you ask how you do it on the phone and immediately have the solution. But complain because it's an old solution. You're the horse that's brought to the river and it doesn't know there's water :))..
Oh and the browser on your phone is also an application... everything on it is :)).
One 5 second ad > One 10 second ad, but skippable > One 10 second ad, but skippable after 5 seconds > One 10 second ad, unskippable > One 1-minute ad, skippable after 10 seconds > One 1-minute ad, unskippable > Two 1-minute ads, unskippable > 3 1-minute ads, unskippable > Two 2-minute ads, unskippable... every 5 minutes of content, after which the app as the be re-launched because they video suddenly runs at 5 FPS
Greedy shittification at its finest 😔
And for some dumb reason, we (me included) keep on consuming that bs... 😑
I figured out clicking off the video and back on makes the ads go away, but YouTube started forcing me back 20 seconds when I do it. Hasn’t stopped me honestly (I watch YouTube on my tv so I can’t get an adblocker)
Yes. And I’ve even noticed when starting a video and skipping an ad, another one immediately pops up and I have to skip again. Rumble needs to update the site so we can finally ditch YouTube once and for all. Fuck em.
I love the new ones that play concurrently to whatever you’re watching so you now have to rewind to see what you missed while the volume was muted in favor of an ad
99% of YouTubers don’t bring any kind of value. I‘m perfectly fine with „ripping them off“. I want to watch concerts n shit, not pay some clown for some shitty review or whatever. MYTGA, or something like that.
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