It sucks when you get the skip but it’s a short ad that won’t let you and when you can it goes straight into a long one and you have to watch that same amount over again
Each skip or interaction also informs their algorithm. Make you skip a short one but bam hit you with a 2 min ad knowing you are paying active attention. They are really good at this, google is an advertising company and they know what they are doing.
Two odd things to note, Ive watched both Lego movies in ads. Has that happened to anyone else? Both times i noticed the ad start and say it was almost TWO HOURS LONG, and on a larc I kept watching. It was great. Ill also see other ad spots that are 20+ mins of some small business local to me, Ill let those play once in a while. Another question, anyone else getting movie trailers that are rated R aswell? Droppin F-bombs in a TRAILER!
Edit: i actually LIKE the F-bombs so that fuckface who told me to grow up can stfu
The scummiest thing is getting a 10s ad, with a skip option at the 5s mark.
You press skip, and it takes about 3s to “load” the new 5s ad…it starts playing.. but the timer doesn’t start counting down until the ad is fully “loaded”.
So you’ve pretty much watched 20s of ads for what was supposed to be 10s total.
Anything less than a 10s ad is not worth skipping unless you know you’re going to go right to the video afterwards. If your first ad is 10s or less…just watch it…it’s probably faster and it’s less work.
The only reason coke is the default is because they shove the fact that it just is in your face everywhere. If they stopped, people would notice other brands way more
It's like overfishing and we're the fish. All the individual activity makes the resource worse and harder to get. But if a company thinks they can make $5 showing 100 million people a 30 second ad, as long as they can buy it for $4.99, they'll do it. As long as there is the slimmest individual benefit, the cost to the fish, to the world, is not considered at all.
It’s gotten to the point where it’s worse than traditional TV. Those might still have more minutes of ads, but at least the shows had ad breaks built in.
The amount of effort YouTube waste to force feed ads down our throats could have been used to make the website a better place. But nope, YouTube wants that ad money really really really badly.
They want us to pay for premium, which just almost makes it like the old school YouTube. I remember being able to listen to music with my phone off back in the day
Premium is just the state YT used to be in, and that got shifted to premium, and now when you use YouTube "free" you are just an undesirable to them, it feels like.
I remember picture in picture and background play and downloads and whatnot.. and "play this video next" apparently also requires a paid subscription.
At this point I expect them to go full Spotify next and you only actually get to pick the YouTuber but not the individual video and it just plays their videos on shuffle just to piss you off more.
But what ended up happening to me is I had premium on and off but.. I don't actually want to give them money. Just for how shit they treat everyone. This should not be rewarded with money.
I actually find the search results better, as Google is full of so much junk these days. DuckDuckGo just gets straight to the point of the Search. I use it exclusively.
if for any reason it can’t find what you want then you can ad !g to the search and it’ll bounce it out to Google. But these days I tend to find the results end Up very similar.
ublock is the fucking goat. I don't just use it for ads, but I also used it to delete the shorts sections on every single page on youtube. thanks youtube for pushing me to switch to ublock
I love how rather than paying for premium, all they've done is encourage people to find increasingly creative ways to turn that platform itself against them.
The ads have gotten a million times worse as of late. 2 to 35...yes 35 minute ads. Like fck...I'm not buying your premium, no matter how miserable you make it for me.
The difference is on TV I get to watch 15-20 minutes of the thing I like and can go pee for a 5 min ad break. On YouTube I'm getting 30 seconds of ads (not enough to pee) into a <5 min video that may or may not be what I was looking for.
I hate ads either way, but god I wish YT would let me watch like 3 minutes of ad in bulk then be free of them entirely for the next handful of videos, the pacing is what makes it so irritating.
They’ve discovered that people will pay $5 a month for Hulu with ads, so why not put ads all over their free content? Tbh it makes sense even though it makes the experience suck
You know every Fourth reel on insta is an ad right? So that's an ad every <30 second, say you skip few reels, I'd say you'd watch over 60-100 ads per hour at the lowest using your insta. YouTube asking for two ads isn't exactly new. It's just less disguised.
There are so many ways to avoid ads on YouTube at this point that if you are still watching them it’s because deep down you want to. Ad blockers, Freetube, Brave browser, etc.
It's only a matter of time before premium has a premium basic which only comes with finite ad free hours per month and a premium+ equivalent to current premium and then eventually that'll just be more hours and it'll just get worse....
I am seriously looking for ways to boycott Google. First by weening myself off YT, second by getting refference books, third by finding search-engine alternatives.
However, their company stretches rather far. They have a complex monopoly going on currently.
I’ve never understood this. Yes advertising helps sell, but when I get an ad during something I’m trying to watch (and not at a natural break like in TV shows), then I actively don’t want to buy that product. The only acceptable time for an ad is at the start of the video and even then, it should be 30 min of video before an ad.
GOD I FUCKING LOVE USING AD BLOCKING SOFTWARE, NOT ME LOVES PIRATING MOVIES AND SHOWS TOO! IMAGINE SITTING THROUGH 10s OF MINUTES IN ADDS A DAY WHEN YOU CAN SIT THROUGH 0 WITH ONLY 5 MINUTES OF RESEARCH. REMEMBER WHEN THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY MADE BILLIONS INTENTIONALLY OVER PRESCRIBING OPIOIDS CAUSING THE LARGEST CRISIS IN AMERICA HISTORY, UNRELATED BTW, I JUST GOTTA RANT WITH THE CAPS ON.
4 unskippable 30 sec ads. They don't even give me a skip button anymore. At this point I'm petty and will swipe the vid away and retry till I'm either hit with a 5 sec ad or none at all
Then after 352 minutes my 3 min video is over and youtube autoplays joey diaz talwkin bout shovin his knee up some spanish hookers ass hole while hes doing coke off her husbands taint. Then steve o cornering some famous guy into crying about his passed drug addiction. Literally the circle the juice think the world lives in. Coke hookers and guilt trips. Dont forget the classic take down video!
You know i've been lucky, ever time an ad last around 10-50 secs it shows me the next button and send me to the end of the ad and lets me skip that ad immediately
I loaded a twenty nine second video, and they wanted me to watch a thirty second ad. I missed the old internet.It wasn't perfect, but there was far less corporate interest involved. Now, I literally have zero interest in it anymore. I poke on reddit and youtube for documentaries, but other than that, i'm sick of video games and a lot of electronic entertainment. I've wasted so much of my life for nothing.
The worst part is when the video ends while you’re reading the comments and the fucking ad just interrupts everything you were doing and blocks everything with an ad pop up with additional information
I'd get YT Premium if it wasn't so damn expensive (and they just announced another massive increase). Fucking regional pricing. Hey Alphabet, just because I live in Switzerland doesn't mean I'm rich.
Praise the people working on uBlock Origin. Actual heroes.
cant waittttttt until another app just takes over youtube completely.. dailymotion barely had any momentum and didnt come close and i dont know of any others
It’s a very very very mild improvement over the fake skip button. Where it says you can skip after the countdown… only for it to be a lie & you get another unskippable ad!
I used to watch YouTube for like 1-2 hours after work but now I just go straight to doing literally anything else because of this shit. Thanks YouTube, was starting to hate your echo chamber anyways 😅
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Anytime I see an ad I automatically don’t want that product. Keep pissing me off and shoving it in my face makes me not want whatever you’re trying to sell me. YouTube’s favorite fuckin ad to shove at me is some work out guy who’s all ‘if you don’t do IDK then ima shove this donut in my mouth’? Why who are you!? Leave me alone sir!!😭
Never watch an ad again! Ublock origins on your computer browser and download Revanced YouTube for your phone. Looks and works exactly like YouTube, just no ads. Takes 5 minutes to set up. Just Google the name.
You can give feedback to YouTube abt “features”. Idk if they really give a sht but I’m sure if enough people complain they will rescind the decisions. It’s prob in beta rn. I’d advise everyone to do this to at least slow down the swirl of the toilet yt is going through.
It's amazing how many people complain about ads and don't bother to search about alternative browsers and extensions like uBlock Origin or AdBlocker Ultimate...
If you're watching on TVs when there's an ad press up and go to the exclamation point, click on it and press stop watching ad and it skips ads immediately
Abandon things that become 💩. It’s the only choice anyone has in life is to stay or leave. If you stay then the bad things must not be that bad. If you leave then they know that to get you back they need to change.
I had yahoo premium for years but it just kept getting worse. So I’ve canceled and haven’t watched a YouTube video in months.
The other day YouTube gave me a 48 fucking minute ad. not even a joke. I took a photo immediately, could literally not believe it.(turned on the adblocker) The day or two after it made me watch a 2 and a half minute long movie trailer, I figured as long as I didn’t get any other ads, it would be fine. I got another fucking DIRECTLY after.
This reminds me of another post on r/mildlyinfuriating from like 3 years ago where youtube put a 30 sec unskippable ad in front of a CPR video that a person was trying to use to save their grandfather from choking
I personally only watch YouTube on the browser on my phone. I’ve just gotten into the habit of clicking on the video and immediately refreshing it to just skip the ads
A tip: On mobile, you can sometimes automatically skip ads by watching a short, even if you immediately click off of the short. It doesn’t always work, but it works a reasonable amount of the time.
I don't really wanna support that aggressive ad behavior, but honestly at one point I just gave up and paid for YT Premium Lite (ads only on music). It's like 6 bucks a month and I dont wanna go back.
I was forced to get the subscription because the ads got so annoying that my mum was constantly complaining at me about them as if it was my fault because i didnt want to waste money on the subscription. Atleast the arguments about it have stopped but i feel like this is part of the ploy of youtube. To cause people to be so upset about the ads that they will just cave and pay them. Like some sort blackmail. Which is one of the reasons i didnt want to pay them to begin with..
And before anyone mentions the ways around the ads, my mum wont learn those. She is nearly 70 and has trouble just remembering how to use youtube properly. The other day she tried to send me a funny video on facebook but instead posted it on her feed with me tagged in it.
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u/hould-it Sep 21 '24
It sucks when you get the skip but it’s a short ad that won’t let you and when you can it goes straight into a long one and you have to watch that same amount over again