Users on Reddit are reporting that they're now seeing 90-second unskippable ads on YouTube's TV app, even as policy restricts them to 30 seconds.
  • somethingDotExe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    For me it isn’t the length, but the frequency that is bothering me. It’s insain, it’s like every 3-5 mins depending on the video length. It’s unusable atleast in my case. Only watching from devices I have adblocker on now. Not my phone.

  • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
    29·
    11 hours ago

    I just realised i haven’t watched a single ad in like 2 years

    Thanks ublock origin!

  • jiblert@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 hours ago

    Whats youtube gonna do when everybody is using adblock and they run out of money

  • BillCheddar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    15 hours ago

    When you see the long ad, just close the fuckin’ browser window. Immediately. And then use something else.

    They’ll only get the point and change if you stop giving them your eyeballs for shit you don’t wanna see.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    9·
    13 hours ago

    Where?

    Oh! On the web interface? n_n I don’t use the web interface. It’s video, so I use a video player. I see no ads, ~ if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.

    on YouTube’s TV app

    That’s where you went wrong. Come to the free software community. We can mend bugs (like malicious features (like ads)) with free software, being free to use, study, share & change the software.

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    14 hours ago

    quality of content that I’ve been seeing on YouTube in my feed has decreased or I have gotten bored. but either way I have made a point to stop visiting that website as much as possible

    I need to get back into reading. my ability to maintain focus has deteriorated so severely in recent years that I can’t even play a stupid video game anymore

  • cpaq47@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    23 hours ago

    “unskippable”

    I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube for years, with 2 simple browser plugins. Assuming you’re on a PC:

    Ublock Origin Sponsor Block

    If you’re using chrome, you already fucked up.

        • emmy67@lemmy.worldEnglish
          54·
          21 hours ago

          Mostly because the problem is systemic, so the response should be as well. Your answer was individualistic.

          Individual change always places the blame on you. The real focus should be on the system that puts you under this pressure.

          • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
            8·
            21 hours ago

            It wasn’t my answer, but I’ll play the part.

            I agree with you in cases where individual change is hard, costly and has barely any influence on the big picture (like your “individual CO2 footprint”). But in this case the individual solution is to quit using a terrible browser and install a free extension in the new one, and it has all the impact it needs because it makes the problem go away. I can’t take anybody seriously who will willingly put themselves through youtube ads when they are this easily avoided.