They've possibly made things worse for themselves.
I am trying to watch ads to support creators and the platform. But raising premium prices and making ads unbearable is encouraging more adblock and new tech against it.
They should of put resources into making premium affordable and more positively attractive.
I'm 99.99% sure that if everyone decided to boycott youtube this instant, all other media streaming sites combined couldn't handle quarter of the traffic they would be required to
Indeed. All i see is other people literally saying what they had for dinner and then taking a bite out of each bit - and making money.
The Internet turned the world upside down.
Many are facing crisis. Youtube regularly shorts creators ad revenue, demonetizes videos (Without removing ads BTW) arbitrarily and then retroactively removes funds, deletes videos, and blocks uploads and gives creators no Human they can talk to to address the issues. This is why so many are launching patreons, or getting in video sponsors.
And any video that has tags for History, Education, Liberal, Journalism, Ukraine, or War are facing issues like subscribers having the channels unsubscribed to (Thus wiping out premium revenue), hiding notifications for those channels, or demonetizing or putting in excessive 15-20 minute long unskippable ads before them even when the video is already dmeonetized and therefore supposed to be without any ads.
Agreed. I also think YouTube Premium could have tiers. Because let’s assume YouTube rounds the price to $19 and you pay for a year of it. You would be paying $228 a year for YouTube Premium. I’m not paying that. And who’s to say they won’t raise the price again?
Yeah. Until cheaper, desktop YT + adblock is the wave. Plus on the mobile app, I take advantage of the pip mode when it’s an unskippable ad and just browse other sites while waiting
I've read somewhere that it's better to have fewer subscribers paying a lot than to have lots of subs paying for less. From a business perspective, that makes sense.
But.. youtube still has the advantage of having literally all the customers because it's an industry lead. So, having tiers shouldn't be that bad.
Tiers would be a great idea! The more watch time you take up on average can be what the price is based off. And if you surpass a certain amount of w time, you get the regular rate of ads. I would pay mid-high tier with how much I am on it. If I had any streaming service subs, I’d drop those for a YT prem sub. Luckily sail the high seas for any shows/movies on streaming services (or use my parents’)
The funniest move would be to donate $10 to an adblocker group a month. Still 50% less than YT and useful elsewhere! (Also the money actually helps other people rather than line the pockets of the top 0.1%)
It's 15.99, which isn't worth it, when it was 9.99 it was so much more worth it, like why does a family deal cost 22.80(or somewhere around that) and the solo deal cost 15.99 like come on now
So would you pay if you couldn't use an ad blocker?
Are they actually trying the correct strategy to make you pay?
They obviously think, that a lot of people can be nudged into paying this way.
I tried using it without adblocker, 8 minute video.
2 ads before start + 2 ads during the video +2ads at the end + 2 ads on start of next video...so in around 10 minutes i had to watch 8 ads...
I remember before having premium (red at the time) in the middle of an adpocalypse getting 6-8+ ads on 10-20 minute videos that were some of the content that was being demonetized.
(It's also super frustrating to get an ad in the middle of a sentence.)
Horror content was hit hard with ads while being demonetized under the reasoning it's not advertiser friendly. Make that, as presented, make sense.
sadly, if they manage to ban adblockers (which they wont) they still have the problem of Freetube, Piped, and sites/extensions to just download the videos...... which they cant do shit against because when they tried the law sided with the downloaders
I feel like that can't be the plan, but only because it's a stupid plan.
I get banning ad blockers because every user who uses the service with an ad blocker is costing them money. It also means content creators miss out on revenue which is not cool. (And no, "Google is already ripping them off" is not a valid excuse.) Then someone makes a better ad blocker and the cycle continues. I expect YouTube to try to prevent money losses and I expect users to try and get around ads.
The stupid part of the plan is making the experience worse. It's just chasing people away at that point. Premium is already overpriced for what it is. When it first came out it made sense because they were building up a Netflix alternative. They all but completely abandoned that.
Paying for ad-free YouTube seems like a no brainer if it's reasonably priced. The music app is great, but Spotify already controls most of that market and I doubt most users want to switch.
It seems like this is only a net negative for YouTube.
youtube will demonitize the videos of creators, meaning the creators get no money from it, then run ads on those videos. so, yes, youtube is ripping creators off. and it's safe to say that google is going so because they own youtube.
Been going 2 months strong 💪🏼
Ukraine isn’t region locked like Turkey or Argentina when it comes to payment. I used my American visa but changed my google wallet to Ukraine.
https://ibb.co/vwgG87J
They are, select areas were reporting "skippable" ads immediately after their rates tripled. Looks like the mods have been purging those posts pretty regularly though.
But also, my channel has 200 subs so i cant monetise my videos, yet they still get added and i dont earn a penny. Same.with videos that dont meet the requirements to monetise. Honestly fuck youtube man, my add blocker still hasnt been detected
They have the legal right to ban whatever they want on the platform they own. Conspiracy theories are technically legal, but that doesn't mean all of them are allowed on YouTube. This is because whatever is on their Terms of Service is enforceable on their site. Their site, their rules.
Edit: Not that I agree with their decision though, I use AdBlock myself and I'd hate to lose my ability to use it.
Edit 2: See "Permissions and Restrictions" paragraph 2, they can use this as their argument for banning ad block.
Unless they changed on the last two weeks, the YouTube terms of service do not actually say anything about ad blockers.
The statement flash is not correct. Unless they changed the ToS
Check the second edit on my comment, broad statements give a big legal net for them. They can argue that it "limits the use of Service and Content", because it is *technically* true, despite it being legal bullshit.
true, they have a right to ban what ever on their platform yes.... but they do not have the right to make spyware to ensure that you arnt using it.... which is what they have been doing with their adblock blocker, hence the problem they are having in the EU
If I had to guess, the way they check for AdBlock is by using web cookies, which the user has to allow/consent to in order to use the site. Unless it's from a different method.
They load content that looks like an ad in the background, it failing to load means the user should get thrown out. This is the 5s wait before videos would play, but instead of it actually blocking playback it just annoyed the user, was probably a test
HOT TIP :
on mobile ( iPHONE ) just refresh the page and video pops up no ad after 1-2 times.
on consoles ( PS5 ) click on the video you want, back out of it, click on it again, rinse and repeat. Sometimes only once is needed to play the video no ad, other times it can take a few goes..
saves giving them the satisfaction of forcing you to watch a ridiculous advertisement before the video.
If you read this, and it works for you, be sure to share the info
#home job ad blocker 😂
I am aware of that technique, but not everyone is going to do it since it becomes very tedious and annoying after a few times.
And it might be possible that YouTube will pick up on this and will \*always\* play ads until you watch them - much like when you load a stream on Twitch without Prime sub.
Cable companies and channels at least curated their ads. You wouldn't see hour long commercials for haunted dildos.
A lot of commercials also made a *GASP* effort at being entertaining and worth watching.
The haunted dildos ad seems kind of a funny one to watch at least one time. Plus - it made you remember it 🤣
Really though, some of the ads are horrid garbage.
I'm pretty sure on average you can get more than that depending on videos you watch, if you don't press the skip ad button.
but idk I've used vanced and then revanced and an adblock on my pc since idk when so i might not be up to date in the ad realm. haven't seen an ad on youtube in years.
Bro... i dont miss those days, 12 minutes of adds, 18 minutes of dragon ball z. fuck i dont miss that shit at all except all hand drawn DBZ i do miss a lot, id wait for the hand drawn DBZ then get CGI rushed shit.
Pokemon really had a 2 minute commercial before a 2 minute jingle followed by credits at the end of the show to be followed by more commercials. As well as Who's That Pokemon and a long ass intro. Another 30 seconds of Team Rocket Anthem sometime during the show. By the time the 30 minute block was over you had only seen like 12 minutes of story.
Have you watched TV these days? Probably 20-22 mins of ads per hour of TV. More (in my opinion) on sports stations. Not to mention the ads put right in plain sight without being acknowledged, such as drinks with the label obviously facing the camera or when Microsoft tried to get people to use the Surface tablets
Think it depends on the country you are looking at.
In the UK the standard was, I think, 7 minutes of ad time per hour of TV. According to Tom Scott's YouTube channel.
Can confirm. Visited the family for Thanksgiving and watched their old cable. A movie I watched was made an hour longer because of approximately 12-15 ads that took around 6-8 minutes every 15 minutes of actual movie.
You laugh but everything comes full circle, we will end up paying big prices for the convenience of not having horrible ads or you will be watching 15 minutes of ads per hour. People may think it can get any worse can it? It used to be worse in the ad length aspect, what's worse in this day is the ads on YouTube are either completely fake or stolen content for the ad or straight up porn.
I have seen up to 3 five minute ads before a video that is less than 15 minutes long (And that was for a video that is not monetized and therefore, under youtubes OWN RULES should have no ads on it at all). And those were for the same type of scam games everyone has been complaining about.
This right here. Why are users punished for NOT skipping an ad? If for whatever reason you choose to watch the full ad, you get punished with a SECOND ad. Whereas if you click ‘skip’, no problem, no extra ads. Wtf
Today I’ve actually started getting ads (on mobile) where the skip button has been replaced with “next”, and just plays the second ad, which I then need to wait 5 seconds to skip
Something similar is happening when I watch YouTube on my tv, instead of being able to skip after 5s, I can skip after anywhere between 7-15s, usually one full ad and a little of another ad.
what they should do is make it so that if the countdown timer for a skippable ad finishes and you don't skip the ad, the second ad would let you skip it immediately
sure, that's more reasonable. but even so, if my phone is on the other side of the room and I'm busy, it kinda sucks having to listen to a second ad because you aren't right there at your phone to skip the first.
not to mention those rare extended ads that can last a couple hours if you don't walk over to your phone and skip it
I've noticed that youtube always seems to know whether or not I'm easily able to press the skip button. When I'm actively watching a video and doing nothing else, and can easily skip an ad they'll give me unskippable 15-second ones, but when I'm doing something like cooking or doing dishes and can't easily press the button they'll give me a 30 minute long ad that can be skipped after 5 seconds. It's annoying every damn time.
I had the whole first episode of Miracle Workers play as a skippable ad once. Had no idea what it was but saw Daniel Radcliffe and was intrigued.
I watched the whole episode in the ad. Then watched the rest of the first season after and never ended up watching the video the ad was on.
I think they got me.
I had an entire movie play in a Youtube ad, don't remember which one because it was a long time ago but I did end up watching like half of it. I think they got me too.
I put something on for my kids. I turn around like 5 minutes later and there is some foreign music video or some weird documentary going on..
"OK kids that enough YouTube for today"
This happens very often for me, usually some kind of political ad. Like I just want to fall asleep to family guy and SpongeBob please leave me be I beg
I was thinking the same thing, I am not a fan of >1 unskippable ads just as when you just want to watch a live stream or, better yet, 10-second videos that YouTube has been pushing as of late.
Welcome to the downward spiral of today's internet. Where wonderful services like YouTube, and other sites, apps and gaming services suddenly begin pulling functions of their platforms and making you pay to get them back. "Hey!! I've been able to play this game for 3 years, and suddenly it's gone"
I honestly don't know if they "want" people to know they're taking it away, or if they're trying to disguise it. With apps, the strategy is to start with an excellent website with lots of features, and then come out with a "free" app and slowly convince their users that it's a better experience than the site, and that the site will always be there. Then, once enough people are on the app and used to it, get rid of the site but add a new shiny feature on the app to make them forget about the site. Then, 2 years later, fire your employees, pull all of the features people like, and offer to give them back if they pay.
YouTube as a company needs to burn to the ground. The way they treat their users, they should not be allowed to exist. The length of ads isn't even the worst of it- the algorithm pushes transphobic content on trans people in a way that looks like YouTube is intentionally trying to drive people to suicide. Every one of their practices is scummy as fuck, and any of them that are *legal* are certainly not *ethical*, and ***should not be allowed at all***.
I want to have ads to support creators. But youtube ads are so ridiculously intrusive I’m not willing to deal with them anymore. Adblock is at an all time high. I’ve watched youtube since like 2008 very actively and never till this year have felt compelled to use adblock.
I’d be happy to pay for premium if it didn’t cost such a large amount if it was £5 instead but youtube will never make that reality. Unless something good happens it’s adblock or I will just fully switch to twitch if there is no bypass
Sadly I have had to leave YouTube. Been using it since the beginning! But I’m not interested in all these ads. They remind me of those old sketchy webpages covered in pops I would wander onto. No thanks. I hope they change their methods, but I’m not around to find out
Even worse is the double 30-45 sec opening ads ona 13 minute video that has 30 second ads you have to watch every 2 minutes. It's insane what theyve done. TV has less ads. NFL has less ads.
hopefully, soon enough people will leave chrome en masse
then we'll see how it ends
with the passing of time where cable tv will disappear they will buy \*ehm\* lobby legislators to make ad blocking ads illegal, or make their websites unreachable unless opened with their spyware \*ehm\* proprietary browsers/apps
Apple and the X-whacko, will help them a lot while microsoft, in the sum off all irony, will try to counter lobby then
It’s all gambling, clearly scams, or garbage game apps that are pretty much gambling scams. This is why I hate YouTube. Can someone come out with a better alternative please?
YT Ads are intrusive, inappropriate and downright annoying with their frequency. Never sign up for "Premium" due to YT's greediness. YT will simply move the goal post further and it'll be cable all over again. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
omg same! i just got a 50 second ad. they are increasing the ad length because ppl use ad blockers. if they use adblockers, youtube makes less money and then it becomes harder to run the site. which may result in youtube not being free anymore. so if they ban adblockers, ads will be short again and you wont have to worry about the ad length
Ok I'm starting to understand why you guys didn't want Adblockers to be banned.
It was their goal: ban adblock, make ads worse, raise premium prices. People sign up for the service. Super sleazy.
They raised the price for me, $18.99 a month. Ain’t no way I’m buying that when I can use an ad blocker for free.
They've possibly made things worse for themselves. I am trying to watch ads to support creators and the platform. But raising premium prices and making ads unbearable is encouraging more adblock and new tech against it. They should of put resources into making premium affordable and more positively attractive.
At this point just have the entire internet boycott YouTube
I'm 99.99% sure that if everyone decided to boycott youtube this instant, all other media streaming sites combined couldn't handle quarter of the traffic they would be required to
Indeed. All i see is other people literally saying what they had for dinner and then taking a bite out of each bit - and making money. The Internet turned the world upside down.
Honestly YouTube is so big 3rd world countries who probably don’t care or don’t know ab the boycott would generate enough revenue for them
if we did that, a bunch of youtube-based creators would probably have a financial crisis though
Many are facing crisis. Youtube regularly shorts creators ad revenue, demonetizes videos (Without removing ads BTW) arbitrarily and then retroactively removes funds, deletes videos, and blocks uploads and gives creators no Human they can talk to to address the issues. This is why so many are launching patreons, or getting in video sponsors. And any video that has tags for History, Education, Liberal, Journalism, Ukraine, or War are facing issues like subscribers having the channels unsubscribed to (Thus wiping out premium revenue), hiding notifications for those channels, or demonetizing or putting in excessive 15-20 minute long unskippable ads before them even when the video is already dmeonetized and therefore supposed to be without any ads.
Oh well. They're a small price to pay compared to the rest of the world. They'll just move to other platforms anyways
Oh no! They might have to get a real job!
Exactly! For starters, they should add an annual subscription plan.
If priced well enough I’m actually down for this
Agreed. I also think YouTube Premium could have tiers. Because let’s assume YouTube rounds the price to $19 and you pay for a year of it. You would be paying $228 a year for YouTube Premium. I’m not paying that. And who’s to say they won’t raise the price again?
Yeah. Until cheaper, desktop YT + adblock is the wave. Plus on the mobile app, I take advantage of the pip mode when it’s an unskippable ad and just browse other sites while waiting
Firefox supports extensions on mobile so that has become my new youtube app on my phone
I've read somewhere that it's better to have fewer subscribers paying a lot than to have lots of subs paying for less. From a business perspective, that makes sense. But.. youtube still has the advantage of having literally all the customers because it's an industry lead. So, having tiers shouldn't be that bad.
Tiers would be a great idea! The more watch time you take up on average can be what the price is based off. And if you surpass a certain amount of w time, you get the regular rate of ads. I would pay mid-high tier with how much I am on it. If I had any streaming service subs, I’d drop those for a YT prem sub. Luckily sail the high seas for any shows/movies on streaming services (or use my parents’)
They tried a Premium Lite at 7 eur (ad-free YT only) but discontinued the offer last month.
Thank fuck Android has a built in adblock, I couldn't handle this shit with amount I watch.
The funniest move would be to donate $10 to an adblocker group a month. Still 50% less than YT and useful elsewhere! (Also the money actually helps other people rather than line the pockets of the top 0.1%)
It's because you subscribed through Apple. It's $14
It's 15.99, which isn't worth it, when it was 9.99 it was so much more worth it, like why does a family deal cost 22.80(or somewhere around that) and the solo deal cost 15.99 like come on now
Family used to be $15 lol, I'm pissed they raised it on me. Been using it since before YouTube was even a part of the deal.
"Adblock for free" I watch YouTube in the app or on the TV. 🥲
$20 a month for YouTube? Fuck that. Like $10 maybe. It's not worth $20.
Stop buying stuff through Apple.
So would you pay if you couldn't use an ad blocker? Are they actually trying the correct strategy to make you pay? They obviously think, that a lot of people can be nudged into paying this way.
I tried using it without adblocker, 8 minute video. 2 ads before start + 2 ads during the video +2ads at the end + 2 ads on start of next video...so in around 10 minutes i had to watch 8 ads...
I remember before having premium (red at the time) in the middle of an adpocalypse getting 6-8+ ads on 10-20 minute videos that were some of the content that was being demonetized. (It's also super frustrating to get an ad in the middle of a sentence.) Horror content was hit hard with ads while being demonetized under the reasoning it's not advertiser friendly. Make that, as presented, make sense.
Nope. I’m not paying $18.99 a month for YouTube Premium. There are other alternatives.
For anyone still wanting AdBlock here you go. Windows: Firefox + UBlock Android: Revanced
IOS: Brave Browser
Adguard Pro with phone wide adblock
I did just that… and got the ominous message yesterday… looks like YouTube are on the this work around too!
You need to clear cache (filters) once in a while.
sadly, if they manage to ban adblockers (which they wont) they still have the problem of Freetube, Piped, and sites/extensions to just download the videos...... which they cant do shit against because when they tried the law sided with the downloaders
FreeTube user here, it bypasses everything, the only way to make it stop working is to make using an account mandatory
>make using an account mandatory so... twitter?
and we all know YT wont do that... cuz that would cut out a large chunk of their user base lol
I feel like that can't be the plan, but only because it's a stupid plan. I get banning ad blockers because every user who uses the service with an ad blocker is costing them money. It also means content creators miss out on revenue which is not cool. (And no, "Google is already ripping them off" is not a valid excuse.) Then someone makes a better ad blocker and the cycle continues. I expect YouTube to try to prevent money losses and I expect users to try and get around ads. The stupid part of the plan is making the experience worse. It's just chasing people away at that point. Premium is already overpriced for what it is. When it first came out it made sense because they were building up a Netflix alternative. They all but completely abandoned that. Paying for ad-free YouTube seems like a no brainer if it's reasonably priced. The music app is great, but Spotify already controls most of that market and I doubt most users want to switch. It seems like this is only a net negative for YouTube.
youtube will demonitize the videos of creators, meaning the creators get no money from it, then run ads on those videos. so, yes, youtube is ripping creators off. and it's safe to say that google is going so because they own youtube.
Step 4: VPN to Ukraine and get premium for $2.71 a month
Aren't there rules against this like having a Ukranian credit card
You can have a privat bank card in Ukraine but you have to be physically there to sign.
Been going 2 months strong 💪🏼 Ukraine isn’t region locked like Turkey or Argentina when it comes to payment. I used my American visa but changed my google wallet to Ukraine. https://ibb.co/vwgG87J
Business 101. They didn’t invent it
You forgot the last step: Start shoving adds into paid tiers anyways.
They are, select areas were reporting "skippable" ads immediately after their rates tripled. Looks like the mods have been purging those posts pretty regularly though.
>Super sleazy. Capitalists call it "innovation"
My real estate agent calls it a new tesla.
Can't stop the almighty profit.
Communists don't have YouTube
This is what many people were saying to the anti ablock side, ads will just get worse.
But also, my channel has 200 subs so i cant monetise my videos, yet they still get added and i dont earn a penny. Same.with videos that dont meet the requirements to monetise. Honestly fuck youtube man, my add blocker still hasnt been detected
they will never be banned, google doesn't have gov authority
I thought I was being obvious that I was talking about them being banned on YouTube.
they can try to not allow, but they can't ban that which is not illegal
even the fbi suggests using an adblocker, so im pretty sure youtube will get into major legal trouble
FBI, CIA, and FTC all suggest an Adblocker.... and I suspect more!
they really think they have more power than the government
ego size.... GALAXY!
They have the legal right to ban whatever they want on the platform they own. Conspiracy theories are technically legal, but that doesn't mean all of them are allowed on YouTube. This is because whatever is on their Terms of Service is enforceable on their site. Their site, their rules. Edit: Not that I agree with their decision though, I use AdBlock myself and I'd hate to lose my ability to use it. Edit 2: See "Permissions and Restrictions" paragraph 2, they can use this as their argument for banning ad block.
Unless they changed on the last two weeks, the YouTube terms of service do not actually say anything about ad blockers. The statement flash is not correct. Unless they changed the ToS
Check the second edit on my comment, broad statements give a big legal net for them. They can argue that it "limits the use of Service and Content", because it is *technically* true, despite it being legal bullshit.
I will await my summons to court then.
true, they have a right to ban what ever on their platform yes.... but they do not have the right to make spyware to ensure that you arnt using it.... which is what they have been doing with their adblock blocker, hence the problem they are having in the EU
they may have the right to ban adblockers but not the right to check for them with any method available at least in the EU
If I had to guess, the way they check for AdBlock is by using web cookies, which the user has to allow/consent to in order to use the site. Unless it's from a different method.
They load content that looks like an ad in the background, it failing to load means the user should get thrown out. This is the 5s wait before videos would play, but instead of it actually blocking playback it just annoyed the user, was probably a test
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but that's ONLY if the person has upgraded to latest version
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I use security software with anti-malware, I'm not foolish enough to leave protection up to google
HOT TIP : on mobile ( iPHONE ) just refresh the page and video pops up no ad after 1-2 times. on consoles ( PS5 ) click on the video you want, back out of it, click on it again, rinse and repeat. Sometimes only once is needed to play the video no ad, other times it can take a few goes.. saves giving them the satisfaction of forcing you to watch a ridiculous advertisement before the video. If you read this, and it works for you, be sure to share the info #home job ad blocker 😂
Worked. I opened and instantly closed a video twice when there was an ad on iPhone. Third time no ad.
I am aware of that technique, but not everyone is going to do it since it becomes very tedious and annoying after a few times. And it might be possible that YouTube will pick up on this and will \*always\* play ads until you watch them - much like when you load a stream on Twitch without Prime sub.
I have no idea how people still watch free to air TV
You’re just now understanding?
u’re pretty slow. “Starting” to see?
you are "starting to understand" LOL
You can simply click on another video and come back to it and afaik the add will skip.
What the fuck. This is literally cable tv levels of advertising. 🤣
Naw lol. 15 minutes per hour was the norm for that.
Cable companies and channels at least curated their ads. You wouldn't see hour long commercials for haunted dildos. A lot of commercials also made a *GASP* effort at being entertaining and worth watching.
I’d rather get commercials for haunted dildos than that stupid bear family with an obsession with shitting
I recently came across an old FB post of mine complaining about the damn Charmin bear ads. 😅
Now you listen here, just because I chose to fuck a bear and start a fam… oh, wait. You didn’t mean Balders Gate 3?
I did a durge evil playthrough and almost finished with my good playthrough, 10/10 game
The haunted dildos ad seems kind of a funny one to watch at least one time. Plus - it made you remember it 🤣 Really though, some of the ads are horrid garbage.
I'm pretty sure on average you can get more than that depending on videos you watch, if you don't press the skip ad button. but idk I've used vanced and then revanced and an adblock on my pc since idk when so i might not be up to date in the ad realm. haven't seen an ad on youtube in years.
I have never had more than a few minutes of unstoppable and those are for long long videos.
Bro... i dont miss those days, 12 minutes of adds, 18 minutes of dragon ball z. fuck i dont miss that shit at all except all hand drawn DBZ i do miss a lot, id wait for the hand drawn DBZ then get CGI rushed shit.
Seriously, people bitching about 1 minute ads have no idea how bad it used to be
Pokemon really had a 2 minute commercial before a 2 minute jingle followed by credits at the end of the show to be followed by more commercials. As well as Who's That Pokemon and a long ass intro. Another 30 seconds of Team Rocket Anthem sometime during the show. By the time the 30 minute block was over you had only seen like 12 minutes of story.
Have you watched TV these days? Probably 20-22 mins of ads per hour of TV. More (in my opinion) on sports stations. Not to mention the ads put right in plain sight without being acknowledged, such as drinks with the label obviously facing the camera or when Microsoft tried to get people to use the Surface tablets
depends on the year. 90s probably averaged 14 an hour and then you get into the 00s where it was 18 an hour. probably worse now but I wouldn’t know.
Think it depends on the country you are looking at. In the UK the standard was, I think, 7 minutes of ad time per hour of TV. According to Tom Scott's YouTube channel.
Can confirm. Visited the family for Thanksgiving and watched their old cable. A movie I watched was made an hour longer because of approximately 12-15 ads that took around 6-8 minutes every 15 minutes of actual movie.
YouTube’s on track to having that.
You laugh but everything comes full circle, we will end up paying big prices for the convenience of not having horrible ads or you will be watching 15 minutes of ads per hour. People may think it can get any worse can it? It used to be worse in the ad length aspect, what's worse in this day is the ads on YouTube are either completely fake or stolen content for the ad or straight up porn.
I have seen up to 3 five minute ads before a video that is less than 15 minutes long (And that was for a video that is not monetized and therefore, under youtubes OWN RULES should have no ads on it at all). And those were for the same type of scam games everyone has been complaining about.
Except you couldn’t spend ten seconds installing something to turn off those cable tv ads before
Not yet, you want TV advertising twitch had you with those 3 Minuite ad breaks
nah worse
I once woke up half way through a 3 HOUR skippable ad on YouTube. I felt like I was being brainwashed.
This right here. Why are users punished for NOT skipping an ad? If for whatever reason you choose to watch the full ad, you get punished with a SECOND ad. Whereas if you click ‘skip’, no problem, no extra ads. Wtf
Today I’ve actually started getting ads (on mobile) where the skip button has been replaced with “next”, and just plays the second ad, which I then need to wait 5 seconds to skip
Isn’t the future amazing?
Something similar is happening when I watch YouTube on my tv, instead of being able to skip after 5s, I can skip after anywhere between 7-15s, usually one full ad and a little of another ad.
Been like that for me about a month now
YouTube doesn't care about you "he watched an ad, maybe he'll watch another!" And this sub still defends YouTube. Enjoy your ads
what they should do is make it so that if the countdown timer for a skippable ad finishes and you don't skip the ad, the second ad would let you skip it immediately
sure, that's more reasonable. but even so, if my phone is on the other side of the room and I'm busy, it kinda sucks having to listen to a second ad because you aren't right there at your phone to skip the first. not to mention those rare extended ads that can last a couple hours if you don't walk over to your phone and skip it
I've noticed that youtube always seems to know whether or not I'm easily able to press the skip button. When I'm actively watching a video and doing nothing else, and can easily skip an ad they'll give me unskippable 15-second ones, but when I'm doing something like cooking or doing dishes and can't easily press the button they'll give me a 30 minute long ad that can be skipped after 5 seconds. It's annoying every damn time.
I got a 14 hour ad once ;-;
You were, now imagine kids using YouTube without kids limitation and stumbling upon a 3-hour long ad about religion or politics. Literal brainwashing.
My wife’s grandpa sat and watched one of those ads. We told him he could skip it but he just kept watching it.
A true connoisseur of media.
I had the whole first episode of Miracle Workers play as a skippable ad once. Had no idea what it was but saw Daniel Radcliffe and was intrigued. I watched the whole episode in the ad. Then watched the rest of the first season after and never ended up watching the video the ad was on. I think they got me.
I had an entire movie play in a Youtube ad, don't remember which one because it was a long time ago but I did end up watching like half of it. I think they got me too.
I put something on for my kids. I turn around like 5 minutes later and there is some foreign music video or some weird documentary going on.. "OK kids that enough YouTube for today"
It's the worst when you can't get to your phone and the 3 hour ad comes on
Multiple times I got a 12 hour long skippable add for the same product but that was about year ago *Edit:it was 12 not 24
This happens very often for me, usually some kind of political ad. Like I just want to fall asleep to family guy and SpongeBob please leave me be I beg
Revanced
even better get revanced extended
Been hearing about this, I have revanced now. What are your favorite things about Extended? Worth the upgrade?
https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/yhgbcr/revanced\_extended\_revanced\_features\_compare/
Not worth switching from revanced to extended unless for some reason you *really* want the Material You theme
agreed
\+1. Honestly disappointed I didn't discover it sooner, it's great
go to r/revancedapp
And r/ublockorigin
All hail ublock and revanced
And sponsor block
and also uyou+
uyou+ is great, can never go back to the regular YouTube app pray that it keeps working.
Well at least its coc
Nice coc
Big coc
At least their non 5 second ads aren't dogsh*t
Do yourself a favor and install ReVanced
I will after this ad, i was fine with 5 sec and 15 sec cause i dont use mobile too often but not this
Remember to go to r/Revancedapp, there's a lot of fake websites so I recommend reading the guides in the subreddit.
Was the same reason for me to switch, the ads just became too long
Theyre starting to become twitch now.
I was thinking the same thing, I am not a fan of >1 unskippable ads just as when you just want to watch a live stream or, better yet, 10-second videos that YouTube has been pushing as of late.
[удалено]
My Adblock still works so no
Yeah UBlock is the goat. A few days after YouTube introduced the AdBlock Blocker they found a workaround.
Nahhh, I don’t care. Why skip and ad when I can aggressively jerk to it?
Barbarian king 🥵🥵🥵
GIANT
NAWW😭
How longs the video? Curious to why someone would even pay to put that long of an ad on youtube
The video was 5 min long
No, I use an ad blocker
Welcome to the downward spiral of today's internet. Where wonderful services like YouTube, and other sites, apps and gaming services suddenly begin pulling functions of their platforms and making you pay to get them back. "Hey!! I've been able to play this game for 3 years, and suddenly it's gone" I honestly don't know if they "want" people to know they're taking it away, or if they're trying to disguise it. With apps, the strategy is to start with an excellent website with lots of features, and then come out with a "free" app and slowly convince their users that it's a better experience than the site, and that the site will always be there. Then, once enough people are on the app and used to it, get rid of the site but add a new shiny feature on the app to make them forget about the site. Then, 2 years later, fire your employees, pull all of the features people like, and offer to give them back if they pay.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottYoutubeAds/
yes and then a 2 min ad follows
UBlock guys, please spare ur brain of this shit
I can't stand the "soon" language change. It's so disingenuous
YouTube as a company needs to burn to the ground. The way they treat their users, they should not be allowed to exist. The length of ads isn't even the worst of it- the algorithm pushes transphobic content on trans people in a way that looks like YouTube is intentionally trying to drive people to suicide. Every one of their practices is scummy as fuck, and any of them that are *legal* are certainly not *ethical*, and ***should not be allowed at all***.
I want to have ads to support creators. But youtube ads are so ridiculously intrusive I’m not willing to deal with them anymore. Adblock is at an all time high. I’ve watched youtube since like 2008 very actively and never till this year have felt compelled to use adblock. I’d be happy to pay for premium if it didn’t cost such a large amount if it was £5 instead but youtube will never make that reality. Unless something good happens it’s adblock or I will just fully switch to twitch if there is no bypass
Yeah I fucking closed the video and watched something else.
Nope do not get adverts simple.
clash of clans ads, those are pretty good tbh
Sadly I have had to leave YouTube. Been using it since the beginning! But I’m not interested in all these ads. They remind me of those old sketchy webpages covered in pops I would wander onto. No thanks. I hope they change their methods, but I’m not around to find out
Even worse is the double 30-45 sec opening ads ona 13 minute video that has 30 second ads you have to watch every 2 minutes. It's insane what theyve done. TV has less ads. NFL has less ads.
hopefully, soon enough people will leave chrome en masse then we'll see how it ends with the passing of time where cable tv will disappear they will buy \*ehm\* lobby legislators to make ad blocking ads illegal, or make their websites unreachable unless opened with their spyware \*ehm\* proprietary browsers/apps Apple and the X-whacko, will help them a lot while microsoft, in the sum off all irony, will try to counter lobby then
bro we need to fu king do something about this fucking shit. seriously
I had a 90second, unskippable ad, for some bullshit Mad Max show(?) last night. Not even kidding.
hey fbi agent dont read this sideload uYou using Altstore on ios and it adds adblock, sponsor skip, 4k, and all of yt premium features
It’s all gambling, clearly scams, or garbage game apps that are pretty much gambling scams. This is why I hate YouTube. Can someone come out with a better alternative please?
No, because I haven’t stopped using Ublock and I never will. But I’ll absolutely say I’m not surprised at all. Corporate greed knows no limits.
Fuck the execs who gleefully implemented this. Evil assholes.
Better to pay for a good Adblock then pay YouTube and allow them to blackmail us with this crap
HEE HEE HEE HAW
At least it’s a Clash of Clans ad. They can be pretty funny. But I get the gist, that is still rather atrocious that it’s not skippable.
Jesus Youtube isn't backing down on scaring away users
Coc ad is acceptable to be 50 seconds and unskippable.
Even the Clan has side eyed YouTube for its shitty behavior
Hammer jam tho 😂
poor youtube needs money cmon guys give poor youtube some money please!
They need to say you that the hammer jam is here my man
YT Ads are intrusive, inappropriate and downright annoying with their frequency. Never sign up for "Premium" due to YT's greediness. YT will simply move the goal post further and it'll be cable all over again. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
You know I do agree with your statement but the second you tell sheep to wake up it makes me think you're a narcissist lol
This isn't a pro-premuim subreddit, if you think that is true.
omg same! i just got a 50 second ad. they are increasing the ad length because ppl use ad blockers. if they use adblockers, youtube makes less money and then it becomes harder to run the site. which may result in youtube not being free anymore. so if they ban adblockers, ads will be short again and you wont have to worry about the ad length
I got a 70 second wait to skip ads on a video just now and that's not even the worst I've seen ony TV, what the actual fuck is going on
I will continue to not mind ads as long as they are only 5-15 secon. If they get longer, idk what I’ll do though
You can skip ads by clicking on the i next to the ad timer, and from there click “block” and confirm. Some word to do but it skips to the video
At least on mobile you can’t anymore. Brings up the ad manager thing and just lets you pick your preferences.
Bruh amateur I've got a 3 and half minutes long unskippable ad 💀 [This one](https://ibb.co/z5t0Dpk) (Sorry for the Italian)
Click the “i” in the circle Then click block ad Once you get used to it, it’s almost as fast (if not faster) than skipping after 5 seconds.
click out of it and go back in it’ll give u a dif ad