YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
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Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#2I still remember YouTube ramping up ads starting at the beginning of lockdowns in 2020. It was the first time I was seeing double unskippable ads and 14 second ads.
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#3Why does anyone put up with ads? Install uBlock Origin → no ads.
Also, if you install SponsorBlock then at least for popular videos you will probably never see an ad from a video creator either. You can even have it skip self–promotional segments (Subscribe Now!), repetitive animations and intro sequences, credits, previews, etc.
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#4Why does anyone put up with ads? Install uBlock Origin → no ads. Also, if you install SponsorBlock then at least for popular videos you will probably never see an ad from a video creator either. You can even have it skip self–promotional segments (Subscribe Now!), repetitive animations and intro sequences, credits, previews, etc.
That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#5Why does anyone put up with ads? Install uBlock Origin → no ads. Also, if you install SponsorBlock then at least for popular videos you will probably never see an ad from a video creator either. You can even have it skip self–promotional segments (Subscribe Now!), repetitive animations and intro sequences, credits, previews, etc.
That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.
smarttubenext for Google TV
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#6Why does anyone put up with ads? Install uBlock Origin → no ads. Also, if you install SponsorBlock then at least for popular videos you will probably never see an ad from a video creator either. You can even have it skip self–promotional segments (Subscribe Now!), repetitive animations and intro sequences, credits, previews, etc.
It's probably apt to ask yourself what sort of revenue model you prefer to support for the value provided. YouTube is a rare case where they offer multiple options.
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#7I already spend much less time on YT since they butchered their recommendations. Now I‘ll think twice before clicking on a video, so I very much welcome this change. Just as you can watch incredible videos about every topic on YouTube, you can waste hours watching junk. To me, this change is a great incentive not to do the latter.
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#8Why does anyone put up with ads? Install uBlock Origin → no ads. Also, if you install SponsorBlock then at least for popular videos you will probably never see an ad from a video creator either. You can even have it skip self–promotional segments (Subscribe Now!), repetitive animations and intro sequences, credits, previews, etc.
Years ago I got my not-so-tech-savvy parents using an ad blocker on their laptop, and recently when I upgraded them to a new device they briefly experienced the internet without an ad blocker and thought something was wrong with their brand new computer.
Once you experience the digital landscape with ads blocked, you quickly realize the mindblowing amount of advertising people are subjected to thru traditional media. I always wonder how much energy we're collectively wasting by sending people ads that they don't want to see, or will be blocked and never seen at all. What a waste
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#9Then pay for YT Premium so you don't have ads.
Look, I hate ads. I really do. You can pry uBlock Origin from my cold, dead fingers. But the thing is, sites and creators and whatnot still often choose ads as a way to fund the things they create. If they're pushing ads at you over a medium where you have control (there's a reason why a web browser is a "user agent"), then I think you totally have the right to choose what your user agent does and does not fetch from the remote server. (And I believe uBO does work for YouTube ads?)
But if you're consuming something through a medium where you don't have full control -- such as the YouTube mobile app -- then you get what you get. If the ads are onerously bad enough, and people don't want to pay to remove ads, then fewer people will use YT and Google will dial it back. But there's always the paid option.
I get that many of us don't like ads -- again, I don't either -- and don't like a choice being made for us as to how we're going to "pay" for content online. But this isn't the case here: Google offers an ad-free paid experience. If you get enough value out of YouTube, maybe you should just pay for it. If you don't want to (or can't), then ads (or blocking) it is. Or just don't use it... vote with your feet.
Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
#10Why does anyone put up with ads? Install uBlock Origin → no ads. Also, if you install SponsorBlock then at least for popular videos you will probably never see an ad from a video creator either. You can even have it skip self–promotional segments (Subscribe Now!), repetitive animations and intro sequences, credits, previews, etc.
That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.
I don’t have much sympathy. When you bought those you gave up your ability to run your own software on them. That’s really why they sell them.