Well I'd imagine youtube's infrastructure is very expensive. I guess they can no longer pretend the service they provide for free doesn't need to be funded. What did people expect?
YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts
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#12I wonder if they time limit unskippable ads. I've seen some stupidly long ones, where it seems like someone has just made their hour+ long podcast recording into an ad or something.
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#13> "Imagine wanting to watch a video on how to help one of your loved ones who is choking and you get 10 unskippable ads before you can watch the video."
Someone pop this in a time capsule and label it "peak twitter, early 21st century"
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#14Someone will say to pay for Premium but weird thing Google(and other giants) have very limited payment methods. I do not understand why Steam,Gog, Patreon and small companies you never heard of can offer various payments methods (like PayPal) but the giants are limited to credit cards, maybe they don't want my money or they really want the credit cards? or maybe PayPal is too difficult to handle for a giant but small companies have no choice? Anyone knows?
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#15Fun fact: If you report the ad, it skips that ad and all remaining ones and goes straight to the video.
I found out that if you do that enough times, your account will permanently lose the ability to report ads. At least, the option is no longer present on my account.
So that’s what happened!
I used to report all ads as offensive, because they are.
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#16Folks, just pay for YouTube Premium. In my family, between my kids and myself we watch more YouTube than Netflix/Disney+/Hulu combined so the YouTube family plan is the best value going.
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#17Firefox + uBlock Origin = no ads. Also on mobile :)
Also on Android*, unfortunately.
If you want adblocking youtube on iOS I recommend using Safari with the vinegar (paid) extension. (And wipr for general adblocking)
ETA: If I remember correctly, Brave Browser also has ad blocking built in. For youtube as well.
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#18Someone will say to pay for Premium but weird thing Google(and other giants) have very limited payment methods. I do not understand why Steam,Gog, Patreon and small companies you never heard of can offer various payments methods (like PayPal) but the giants are limited to credit cards, maybe they don't want my money or they really want the credit cards? or maybe PayPal is too difficult to handle for a giant but small…
I use apple pay for youtube premium. Sure, that's just a mirror for a credit card, but it is an option.
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#19Folks, just pay for YouTube Premium. In my family, between my kids and myself we watch more YouTube than Netflix/Disney+/Hulu combined so the YouTube family plan is the best value going.
I thought about that, but then I realized I'd have to be logged in to my Google account, and for privacy reasons I'm avoiding this as hard as I can.
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#20Folks, just pay for YouTube Premium. In my family, between my kids and myself we watch more YouTube than Netflix/Disney+/Hulu combined so the YouTube family plan is the best value going.
they'll add ads to that once enough people are using it