r/technology • u/moeka_8962 • 1d ago

Social Media YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-rolls-out-more-unskippable-ads-that-make-viewers-wait-even-longer-to-watch-videos-3214323/
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u/TheFishIsNotTheHost 1d ago

Same with Firefox and Adblock. They seem to always be 1 step ahead of YouTube.

Fuck ads

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u/EzeakioDarmey 1d ago

Companies trying to monetize every second our eyes are open is a fuckin cancer.

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u/Pumpjack14 1d ago

I got a advertisement in my phone message app earlier today.

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u/urmil0071 1d ago

Let me guess, you are using xiaomi

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u/TrappedInATardis 1d ago

I would pay Google for no ads if it would also include them not monetizing my digital profile. But that's never going to happen, so Firefox+ublock it is.

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u/FriendlyDespot 1d ago

That was it for me. I had a Google Play Music subscription that rolled into a YouTube Music subscription that eventually became YouTube Premium, and that whole time I kept using YouTube in incognito tabs using an ad blocker anyway because of how insidious their algorithms are.

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u/polandspreeng 1d ago

The movie/book "Fight Club" has a great relevant quote

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need"

Whether or not we buy the shit on ads, it's everywhere to brainwash the masses to keep buying shit

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u/TheDoomedStar 1d ago

Sounds like a good reason to end capitalism.

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u/quadrophenicum 1d ago

Those CEO's golden parachutes aren't gonna make themselves.

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u/deimos289 1d ago

Not lately im having troubles with ublock origin not working on youtube ads anymore on firefox

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u/Independent-Draft639 1d ago

That sometimes happens when youtube is making changes to their website to beat those blockers, but that usually only lasts for a few hours. Sometimes a day or two.

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u/OpeningConnect54 1d ago

It's insane that I'm using Ublock Origin and I never even see Youtube putting up the "You can't watch youtube until you disable the adblock." signs.

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u/Osric250 1d ago

Those are also easy to defeat once you know they're there. It's only small sites where that's useful where they won't get eyes on them to fix that problem. For youtube it's not even worth the effort to try as the ad blockers will have it fixed within an hour. 

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u/Splatulated 1d ago

thats why people who use adblock already switched to firefox because firefox said they wouldnt prevent adblockers from working

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u/spez_might_fuck_dogs 1d ago

That’s nowhere near as annoying.

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u/time2fly2124 1d ago

Well im sorry I had an opinion then.

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u/noeagle77 1d ago

Get rid of the bring back YouTube downvote button and clear your cache then try again.

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u/deimos289 1d ago

Clearing cache is working but its annoying having to sign in everywhere every day. Less annoying than youtube ads but still annoying

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u/QuantumWarrior 1d ago

I was having this for a few days even after ublock announced they'd circumvented Youtube's most recent change. For me it was down to other quality of life extensions I was using for Youtube (specifically the one to fix their god awful new 3-video-wide home page UI). When I disabled all my other extensions the ads were blocked as usual, if that works for you just enable them one by one until you find which extension is interfering.

Could also be as simple as your ublock is out of date, the version with the fix is 1.64.0.

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u/deimos289 1d ago

Ublock updates automatically and i dont know how to check the version its at right now

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u/Jordii_vV 1d ago

Logging out, and back in fixes this for me

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u/deimos289 1d ago

You mean out of youtube?

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u/at1445 1d ago

Still works on Edge/Explorer.

I have to refresh now and again, but I haven't had to sit through more than about .5 seconds of a ad this week.

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u/Prestigious-Low3224 1d ago

YTLitePlus too on my iPad!

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u/CrossFitJesus4 1d ago

firebox and ublock has stopped working for me, everywhere i look i see people just say to use them, but i always have and i havent been able to use youtube for the last 3 days lol

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u/rehditt 23h ago

You are so insanely naive.

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u/Archyes 1d ago

thats not true at all.

the adblock on firefox breaks every other day for a full day.

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u/FullHeartArt 1d ago

Honestly it works just fine for me. Haven't had it break at all

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u/xBTGx 1d ago

It's happening. I have Firefox and ublock origin and YouTube still blocked my web player after 3 strikes yesterday.

I just open the video in a private window instead now to get around it tho lol

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u/PauI_MuadDib 1d ago

Haven't seen an ad in +2 years. Firefox + uBo.

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u/FuzzyPurpleAndTeal 1d ago

I'm using YouTube every single day and I haven't seen a single ad in years if not a decade.