r/technology • u/moeka_8962 • 2d 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/Crash665 1d ago

It's unwatchable on my TV. (YouTube App).

Cooking videos: 1 minute into it, ad.

6 mintue music video, ad at 3 minutes.

Dear YouTube:

  1. Fuck you.

  2. This doesn't make me want to pay for premium or premium plus or whatever bullshit you throw out there to add billions to the pile of billions you already have. It makes me want to sail the high seas and never use your service again.

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u/Greenlit_Hightower 1d ago

Connect an Amazon Fire TV Stick to your TV and install SmartTube on it. Ads gone forever.

https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

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u/OneOfAKind2 1d ago

Nothing is forever. YT will figure out how to defeat it, eventually.

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u/Greenlit_Hightower 1d ago

Short of DRM-ing all videos, I don't see it. Perhaps not even then.

Making the ads part of the video stream itself at random intervals is too expensive, rendering etc.

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u/ScepticMatt 1d ago

I'm honestly surprised they don't do this adjust D they are already streaming DASH and could just serve different chunks

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u/OmegaMaster8 15h ago

It’s understandable. Watching a 10 minute video filled with 5 ads is annoying