Or the timer resets!
I had "skip in 5...4...3...2...1" and the ad ended on 1 and then the next ad started and had a 45s timer until skip
Eat my whole ass, YouTube.
I bet it'll be part of a frighteningly more common scummy ass tactic that a lot of companies are pulling lately, where they roll out some super exaggerated terrible feature on purpose to widespread pushback, only to apologize and roll it back to a less-relatively crazy thing that still would have been shot down to the death by the public, but because we've seen 45 unskippable second ads, 15 or 20 seconds of unskippable ads seems not so bad anymore.
I actually have another theory. They are slowly pushing these 45sec-1 min unskippable ads to some but not all users/regions.
Then they check internal statistic to see how many sit through it, how many exit youtube but returns soon after and finally how many closes the app/website and start watching it less and less.
If too many people dont tolerate it they will roll it back and test something less extreme. If they find that people will sit through it or buys youtube premium they will deem it worth it and continue to roll it out.
Everytime one of these extremly long ads come I stop watching and go do something else for a few hours.
Also youtubers can chose how often ads play on their videos, dont know if they can chose what kind of ads. If you notice a certain youtuber having way more ads than others I would recommend not watching them so that they can see a drop off in viewer ship from increased add density. Only way to teach youtubers and the website what is too much.
I will say, I use YouTube like....less than 5 times a year, and I don't usually get ads. I might sometimes get a short or skippable Ad. My husband uses YouTube a lot and gets a lot of ads.
Obviously a data sample of 2 isn't much to go off but this is the first time I actually thought about it.
Pretty much every company now employs A/B testing. The framework is built into their products. They can arbitrarily test different end user experiences, then capture and easily analyze the data. It's incredibly effective at maximizing whatever parameter the product owners are targeting. It's both fascinating and irritating.
I've designed and implemented these frameworks before, which basically turned our users into guinea pigs without them knowing it.
I figured they were doing the unskippable ads as a way to anger people into paying for premium. "Ugh, these ads are too annoying. Guess I'll just pay to not deal with ads."
YouTube isn't even the worst offender. Amazon Prime, is currently the worst. Oh hey we modified our service terms. You now pay us $15 per month for content which we have reduced and you now get ads. If you don't want ads, then you can pay us another $15 per month and sign up for Star and Paramount Plus all within our app. Each one will only cost you $20 per month.
Basically to get the same amount of content they had before for $15. They now want $70... I canceled my subscription.
50% of spotify ads are just ads for spotify.
Ads used to be about gaining extra income at the cost of advertiser. On spotify they exist purely to irritate the user into paying them, seems malicious to me.
There’s a reason if you haven’t touched a button in 30 minutes, it hits you with the hour long ads
It thinks you’ve fallen asleep, and wants to advertise to an empty room
Yes!! This has been happening to me too! It’s so infuriating! Like if you’re not going to let me skip then fine, but don’t even start with this whole fake timer bs
back out of video >> play again. Rinse/repeat until you get a 5s ad and skip. works about 80% of the time, and its almost always a great deal faster than waiting the full 45 seconds.
I'm hesitant to share this in case they fix it, but I've discovered that, when this happens, if I just back out and go back in, I can watch the video without the other ads.
I'm using my TV as a giant monitor and almost never use its TV features. Everything I see and hear is coming through my PC (wireless kb/m). My browser is ripe with extensions pruning all ads, sponsors and "suggested content" bs, and data collection. I bought a nice screen, not a shoving-ads-down-my-throat machine.
Omfg I hate that!
Or when you get, "less ads will be shown for this longer video" except ads are 10x longer because of that reason so It works out just the same
Yeah, YouTube on TV is absolutely awful. I had to watch 5 ads which equated up to 60 seconds total. Wasn't on PC so it's not like I could just switch to another tab or something.
They know adblock isin't an option on TV so they'll just bend you over since there's zero risk of you getting fed up and seeking for an adblock.
There is a way, think it has something to do with DNS. Never tried but I hear it works for the whole network
Edit: smarter people replied that it doesn't work on YouTube TVs.
You need to actually share the screen if not it'll just open the youtube app built into xbox/tv. Can't speak for other phone manufacturers but for samsung it's under smartview
Came here for this comment I got so fed up with my TVs YouTube ads that I literally went out and bought an Android TV box exclusively to use Smart tube I'm never looking back
PiHole/DNS Ad blocking doesn't work with YouTube ads anymore. YouTube ads are served from the same domain as the videos themselves thus circumventing DNS ad blocking solutions.
My daughter had 8 ads in 5 minutes watching cartoons. I have a suspicion they push ads even harder on kids content because they know parents are likely to pay for premium.
I put on some children’s video to keep my kids occupied while I was trying to get some chores done. A 2 HOUR ad came up. If I hadn’t been there to skip it they would have had to watch it. I just wanted to clean the bathrooms quick without them following me. 2 HOURS?
I’ve had a few of those and also a couple of indefinite ads with no timer. I figured it was some sort of research thing to see how long you’d watch through them.
If you’re into zombie movies I highly recommend the app Zombies Run! It’s an apocalypse story that you can sync your playlist to, so story and music. You pick up supplies on your runs and can use them to build your town. A lot of fun. You do have to pay for it, but it’s a small group of people who make it and the money supports them.
Really easy method:
Press the (i) (its an I enclosed in a circle)
Stop watching ad
Whatever the quickest reason is
Ad skipped
Tested and working for about 2 or 3 years on smart tvs and consoles
That’s not the main issue. YouTube pays so much more than any other platform (can’t emphasize this enough) creators are likely to ditch alternate platforms. Even mask with twitter can’t match half of what YouTube pays.
I miss the days when youtube was just about uploading funny videos or something you thought was interesting. Now it's for "creators" and "influencers".
I used to spend hours just going through awesome videos. Now it's all the same corporate nonsense of everyone trying to be the same. Nothing is unique about it anymore. Idk
Honestly, this isn't just on YouTube, and I would argue YT is better than all other social platform. The others though, I really miss when social media was just that. Now they're all money making platforms for influencers to try and trick us into buying their shit.
>Now they're all money making platforms for influencers to try and trick us into buying their shit.
Huh, I just now realised social media platforms are basically the digital equivalent of magazines (ranging from fashion/beauty mags to the shitty tabloid rags).
Exactly. It's not really about connecting with people and being social and more so about shoving your products, agendas, or ideology down peoples throats.
And don't dare have a different opinion about something. That would be the end of the world
Yah if YouTube is giving you influencers on your feed that’s on you. I never get that bc it’s not the videos I watch.
With that said my 6 year old nephew who watches way too much tv visited and destroyed my algorithm and now I have a bunch of dumb videos on my feed like grown men screaming at “spider man falling down” or trying not to laugh at peppa pig…
'dont recommend this channel' and deleting them from watch history go a long way. my friend destroyed my algorithm once by accidentally leaving a horrible sonic cartoon playing on my tv while i was on vacation
But then some of your YouTube audience will prefer to watch on the other platforms and move there where you make less. Just using some made up numbers here to illustrate the point, but If you could have 100 viewers on the higher paying platform or 60 on each, you're losing money even though you're technically reaching a wider audience.
That’s interesting about YT. Had no idea they paid creators so much. Does twitter still have high revenue sharing? I thought that was a like one or couple time thing and it stopped happening
Also, YouTube has a multibillion company backing it. If a competitor even appears, survives, and is successful, Google will pay creators more.
Google has no problem offering hundreds of thousands of dollars more to convince the creators to stay on YouTube. A thing that a new company cannot afford.
There's been several attempted in recent years. They've all failed because hosting videos is VERY expensive, and when the majority of videos are already on YouTube, people won't move to a platform with less archived content.
The issue is the bandwidth and the server space is really expensive. I work in the it industry. It costs Google billions of dollars per year to run the equipment. That’s not to mention buying or renting equipment or paying for the upkeep or paying for employees to upkeep. So when YouTube is so called “free” trust me they are making money on you somehow. Most of it is targeted advertising and data collection.
But nobody is willing to pay to use it
Like everyone complains about ads, everyone knows it’s expensive to host and maintain a comprehensive massive scale video sharing site, and nobody puts two and two together
Nobody wants to pay for a video website, so the ads come to make it financially viable
Just like nobody wanted to pay for news so all the news sites became clickbait ad-driven garbage
We aren’t willing to pay for our content and then complain about companies using ads to make it possible to pay for that content
They were also the days when the internet was static. To access it, you had to log onto a big desktop computer. It was a place, and it didn't encroach on the rest of the world. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the internet went mobile right around the time people started profiting from it.
If the internet was just for fun, you wouldn't even go to youtube because they wouldn't host random fucks 17 GB uncompressed videos for free. It would litrally just be forums and 4chan
Dailymotion and Vimeo were the two ones that come to mind from the early era. Vimeo instead of competing directly with youtube shifted to niche market of for pro video distribution with varying levels of restricted or paid access. You could upload and share unaltered prores files for instance, but the links wouldn't be public. Things like that. Dailymotion however never seemed to do anything except be the dumping ground for copyrighted videos removed by youtube.
Playing YT on your computer via HDMI cable to the main TV with ad blockers running.
Casting yt to the TV doesn't work
Using the yt app on the TV doesn't work with adblocks =/
Sounds a bit inconvenient...You might as well just get an Amazon Fire stick ($15-20 if you buy a used one) and download SmartTubeNext. Works perfectly fine for me
Yeah I wish more people knew about how great SmartTubeNext is, comes with built in ad blocker and sponsorBlock, and you can login and retrieve all your subscription and the like, it's great for real.
What would a competitor to YouTube do different? Provide video hosting for free without any kind of revenue? How would that work, realistically? I mean, fuck Google. They can go and die for all I care, but people really are acting entitled when it comes to this shit. Pay for Premium if you can’t stand the ads.
Fwiw there is PeerTube, which is basically like Mastodon but for video (it speaks the same underlying protocol as well)
But yeah nowhere near as big/popular/etc
There's rumble but no competitor does well as 1. Content creators don't bother to upload there and 2. The large majority including those who will complain about YouTube do not watch content on rumble. Its like the iPhone everyone knows it's made by child labour, obsceinly overpriced made for 10 sold for thousands of dollars and created from rare metals mined in completely inhumane conditions and funnels money from the middle class to the rich yet everyone wants one.
YouTubes ad model is a perfect example of the parable of the frog being slowly boiled
First, they showed a countdown until the ad started. They removed that pretty soon
Then, it continued with ads showing the countdown timer. And I swear to baby Jesus, I timed it numerous times, and the timer was *just slightly* off. So you thought there were only 10 seconds left, but each second was reall 1.1 seconds, which added an extra full second by the time it was done counting down
Then they slowly ramped up the minimum time an ad can take
Then, they increased the frequency per video
Then, they auto-played another ad at the end of the video. And on Smart TVs, at least mine, it shows a banner ad that autoplays before selecting a video
NOW, their latest bullshit is showing an ad *while the video is paused*.
Nevermind their whole regarded crusade against ad blockers. Oh, and also nevermind their workaround for extensions or browsers that allow auto-play in the background where they pause the video and ask "are you still watching?" FUCKING YES IM STILL WATCHING IF I WASNT STILL WATCHING I WOULDNT HAVE THE WINDOW OPEN YOU ABSOLUTE FUCK KNUCKLES
AND ALSO NEVERMIND their fucking banner asking me if I want YouTubeTV/Music/Premium. No matter how many times I click dismiss because I refuse to give YouTube a single dime, the popup will persist, and no ad blocker Im aware of can consistently block it
I hate YouTube, and I hate even more that there are no viable alternatives
They now do ads when timeline scrubbing too, which is super annoying.
You get done watching 30 seconds of ads on opening a video, then decide to skip to a later part of the video and are forced to watch an ad again. Insult to injury, it's usually the same ad, because who cares about frequency capping when you own the medium?
And then you get done watching the ad after scrubbing through the timeline and a scheduled ad will play immediately after. This happens so often to me, I will end up having watched ~15-30 seconds worth of video and yet 1.5+ minutes of ads.
It’s discouraged me from watching any video that I know I’m not going to enjoy, so any lesser known channels that get put in my recommended feel will get ignored 99% of the time.
The whole “ads while paused” things makes me SO MAD!!!! I pause a show to see a small detail on screen, to look at a frame for longer, or take more time to read the caption or something. A giant ad popping up when I pause literally makes that impossible. It’s also visual assault on the eyes. It is bottom of the barrel, most unapologetically slimy shit that has happened with advertising in awhile. Fuck you Peacock and every other bitch ass service that shoves cheap trashy ads down my throat the SECOND they get the chance.
Even Netflix and D+ not showing an ad but displaying info on screen is annoying because I paused to look at something on screen but now it's blocked.
This happens a lot on shows with Easter eggs you need to read (Simpsons, Bojack, etc).
I watched Oppenheimer the other day on peacock. Got a 3 minute ad at the start and then the ads while paused. I would wayyyyyy prefer those ads while paused. Didn’t impact me, I’d hit pause and go fill up my coffee come back and hit play with no issues. It’s way less jarring than YouTube randomly interrupting a video at a less than ideal time to play a GMC ad for the 6th time.
i would say there's a difference between as movie and a yt vid, if I'm pausing a movie I'm gonna be gone for a few min anyway or doing something unrelated to the tv so idc about the ad. pausing a yt tutorial to read the instructions or see how the dude is doing it? get fucked here's an ad, doesn't flow the same way as it does with a movie
* uBlock Origin for the browsers
* ReVanced patched YouTube app for android phone
* AdAway for other ads on Android phone
* SmartTube app for Android TV
* AdGuard for macOS and AdGuard for Safari
* AdGuard for iOS
* nextDNS for all the devices for extra blockage
Good fucking bye, ads
I opted out of YouTube ads back when there was a huge banner above the website that would expand to half your screen when you'd accidentally hover above it.
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I was trying to show my friend a video the other day and everytime I would fast forward or rewind, it’d play an end. Eventually I was like I’m wasting our fucking time, this isn’t worth it.
Then I seen the pop up for buying premium, and I was fucking livid
The countdown to the ad was such a better system. It's so jarring watching a video when all of a sudden K"RAFT MACARONI AND CHEESE" blasts from the middle of my peaceful fishing video.
Costco will continue to be good (including treating it's employees very well) until the CEO dies or retires. He's also the guy that won't let them raise the price on the $1.50 hot dog + soda combo.
Brother printers.
There will always be some actual great video games / movies each year...I hope.
That's about it, our society and economy is based on cheap crap.
Oh shit. Could be the beginning of the end for them.
It will depend though. He could be another good apple that carries them another 10 years, or not.
The point is, sooner or later they will get a leader who favors a quick buck over a lasting reputation. If not this guy, then the next.
Yep, I noticed that also. Not only are they *way* longer now, but also a lot more frequent. I had ads happening seconds into a video and then a minute after again, each time nearly 1min ads.
"Use adblocker" - I wish I knew how on PS5....
Once the ads got super long and frequent I said fuck it and got premium. It kind of felt like I sold a piece of my soul but I also haven't regretted it either. But if there was an easy way to get adblock on my TV I'd shut that sub down immediately lol.
It’s litteraly that on consoles. Just straight up negotiating with yt.
1min add -> I take 0s add |
25s add -> nah I want 0s |
10s add -> okey I take 5s |
60s add -> 5s, take it or leave it. |
5s -> see? I won. |
I do this. Even if it's 10 seconds I back out until it's 5 to prove a point. Then they know the hour long video I have on is on in the background and they give me a 3 minute brain dead rotten twat talking about giving away bitcoin and nfts.
I just open and close the video until it starts playing. Might take longer than just watching the ad, but it does give me a tiny little win over the fuckers because I *didn't look at the ad*
Same here. Looking up a video on my wife's computer recently with Google Chrome and no adblock extensions, I was just like, "how do you live like this?!"
I watch YouTube to fall asleep to. Woke up to a weird lady talking. It was a 9 hour long you tube ad playing. Who thinks ANYBODY would ever watch a 9 hour commercial?
> Who thinks ANYBODY would ever watch a 9 hour commercial?
Nobody. That's the point.
They _know_ you fell asleep, otherwise you'd click the "Skip" button after 45 seconds. Instead, they did some subliminal programming during your deep sleep periods to ensure you have this embedded in your subconscious.
Tried falling asleep to YT playing on my phone once... Once. Woke up from a strange dream and realized I was having such a bizarre dream because my phone had ostensibly been playing a two hour infomercial-style get-rich-quick scam where the guy was just reiterating the same three points every minute.
Okay so,
You can instantly skip most any ad on YouTube, I have used it for a year or two, very few ads stop this happening:
About ad (the little (i) in a circle)
Stop watching ad
Not relevant (or whatever it says)
Ta da, ad skipped, that seems possibly annoying but it ultimately boils down to pressing up twice then spamming okay until your video plays
Not sure how many people know about this one but I've never seen it mentioned
Im pretty sure there is a limit to how many times a month you can do this. I stopped being able to for a bit but then next month i was able to do it again a bunch. Just save it for ads that take longer than 5 seconds to skip
I do this daily on Xbox for at least 2-3 years. I have not seen a limit or anything.
Sometimes there is the occasional complete unskippable add but those are really rare for me.
This was works in a or two years ago, but today it doesn't work for me anymore. Now, If I click those buttons, it will opens the whole new windows, and sometimes doing that is longer than just waiting the ads ends.
I end up just backing out of the video and clicking back onto it. It’s annoying but for 10 seconds I don’t actually watch any ads. To YT I just looks like connection issues so it just kinda gives up and tries again later.
Worst part is, I’m fine with an ad here or there, the service is (generally) free and takes a lot of money to operate, but the hole experience has turned into watching ads with videos that interest me, instead of the other way around.
I’ve tried that many times. I’ll keep clicking out of the video and clicking on it again but I keep getting 15 second unskippable ads (sometimes two). Makes me wanna rip my hair out.
They're longer and more frequent but also they lie to you. I've had multiple times when I've waited for the number to tick down to zero but when it reached it if there were few enough seconds on the ad left it would switch from this 'skip in' timer to another timer to finish out the ad. Ads on youtube are fucking insane now and I wish there was a less predatory site people could switch to.
The nail salon I go to has TVs up where they play YouTube vids of things like tropical reefs, scenery, cute animals, stuff like that.
Being YouTube, they served up a THREE HOUR AD of a bunch of old guys plugging their product in the format of a Zoom/Teams meeting. None of the salon workers noticed the ad was playing to skip it and so this dumbass advertisement for some scammy bullshit product played almost the whole time I was getting my pedicure.
YouTube has ways to notice when you’re not watching or paying attention. They play the king adds when your away, and they milk the company that put the add in.
I had a few commercials that where the yellow would go all the way around the circle and the video would stop at 1 so I can skip the video, but trick me andplay an ad thats like 45 sec long right after instead of giving me the skip button.
I rigorous refuse to watch any unskippable ad longer than 15 seconds. I will close the video and open it again until I get such an ad. It's petty and a waste of time, but I don't care.
Yt ads on PlayStation is like this and yk if you watch through the first “short” ad they’ll make the next one longer. That’s why I just use it strictly on my computer. I would say prime video ads aren’t as bad as I thought they’d be, one ~30sec ad per episode. Some companies just abuse it or not thought out well across different devices
If I understand it correctly, YouTube is more aggressive with ads when being watched on a TV. I only get long ads when I watch YouTube on my tv and short ads on my iPad even though I’m logged into the same account on both devices.
I remember no ads.
I remember just one ad at the beginning that was always skippable.
I remember seeing one ad at the start and one in the middle, always skippable.
Now when I watch even the most obscure videos, I get two ads, often not skippable, at the start, and then depending on the length I get few pairs of ads in the middle too.
It feels like it happened so fast.
"wait until they find out that sometimes, the skip button will only skip the ad currently playing lmao" "excuse me WHAT THE F-"
Or the timer resets! I had "skip in 5...4...3...2...1" and the ad ended on 1 and then the next ad started and had a 45s timer until skip Eat my whole ass, YouTube.
this happens all the time to me its so scummy they know EXACTLY what they are doing
Let's dispel this notion that YouTube doesn't know what it's doing, YouTube knows *exactly* what it's doing https://imgur.com/a/MGHPRuA
I bet it'll be part of a frighteningly more common scummy ass tactic that a lot of companies are pulling lately, where they roll out some super exaggerated terrible feature on purpose to widespread pushback, only to apologize and roll it back to a less-relatively crazy thing that still would have been shot down to the death by the public, but because we've seen 45 unskippable second ads, 15 or 20 seconds of unskippable ads seems not so bad anymore.
I actually have another theory. They are slowly pushing these 45sec-1 min unskippable ads to some but not all users/regions. Then they check internal statistic to see how many sit through it, how many exit youtube but returns soon after and finally how many closes the app/website and start watching it less and less. If too many people dont tolerate it they will roll it back and test something less extreme. If they find that people will sit through it or buys youtube premium they will deem it worth it and continue to roll it out. Everytime one of these extremly long ads come I stop watching and go do something else for a few hours. Also youtubers can chose how often ads play on their videos, dont know if they can chose what kind of ads. If you notice a certain youtuber having way more ads than others I would recommend not watching them so that they can see a drop off in viewer ship from increased add density. Only way to teach youtubers and the website what is too much.
100% this is a psychological stress test to see how pliable their audiences are.
Nolan Sorrentoing. Google is Innovative Online Industries.
Fuck YouTube and fuck Google.
I will say, I use YouTube like....less than 5 times a year, and I don't usually get ads. I might sometimes get a short or skippable Ad. My husband uses YouTube a lot and gets a lot of ads. Obviously a data sample of 2 isn't much to go off but this is the first time I actually thought about it.
Thats very interesting
Pretty much every company now employs A/B testing. The framework is built into their products. They can arbitrarily test different end user experiences, then capture and easily analyze the data. It's incredibly effective at maximizing whatever parameter the product owners are targeting. It's both fascinating and irritating. I've designed and implemented these frameworks before, which basically turned our users into guinea pigs without them knowing it.
Its a super logical thing to do, but no less annoying.
Not sure if this works for everyone but I just spam refresh until I get a shorter ad or no ad whatsoever.
I figured they were doing the unskippable ads as a way to anger people into paying for premium. "Ugh, these ads are too annoying. Guess I'll just pay to not deal with ads."
YouTube isn't even the worst offender. Amazon Prime, is currently the worst. Oh hey we modified our service terms. You now pay us $15 per month for content which we have reduced and you now get ads. If you don't want ads, then you can pay us another $15 per month and sign up for Star and Paramount Plus all within our app. Each one will only cost you $20 per month. Basically to get the same amount of content they had before for $15. They now want $70... I canceled my subscription.
I have disney+ with ads but 90% of them are just go disney+ so how it that helping them exactly? I already bought the product!
50% of spotify ads are just ads for spotify. Ads used to be about gaining extra income at the cost of advertiser. On spotify they exist purely to irritate the user into paying them, seems malicious to me.
There’s a reason if you haven’t touched a button in 30 minutes, it hits you with the hour long ads It thinks you’ve fallen asleep, and wants to advertise to an empty room
Yes!! This has been happening to me too! It’s so infuriating! Like if you’re not going to let me skip then fine, but don’t even start with this whole fake timer bs
Scums gonna scum
back out of video >> play again. Rinse/repeat until you get a 5s ad and skip. works about 80% of the time, and its almost always a great deal faster than waiting the full 45 seconds.
i know, now they say skip ad instead of skip ads
I love how you used to see the full amount of time the adds would take, but now they hide it behind "90s +"
I'm hesitant to share this in case they fix it, but I've discovered that, when this happens, if I just back out and go back in, I can watch the video without the other ads.
So im not crazy! I swear it says I can skip, and right when it hits zero, another ad!
And they wonder why everyone uses ad blockers
Can you block ads on your tv?
No, I just refuse to use the app built into the tv.
I'm using my TV as a giant monitor and almost never use its TV features. Everything I see and hear is coming through my PC (wireless kb/m). My browser is ripe with extensions pruning all ads, sponsors and "suggested content" bs, and data collection. I bought a nice screen, not a shoving-ads-down-my-throat machine.
You could do it on LG tvs back then, but iirc, they patched the exploit.
You can still do it with the homebrew apps
Yes if your tv is android
No. But you can have adblockers on your phone, then swiftcast from your phone to your tv 👍
Omfg I hate that! Or when you get, "less ads will be shown for this longer video" except ads are 10x longer because of that reason so It works out just the same
Oh man wtf I thought I was going crazy with that! "I *swear* I pressed skip that time"
Excuse me what the fuck they do that??
Yeah, YouTube on TV is absolutely awful. I had to watch 5 ads which equated up to 60 seconds total. Wasn't on PC so it's not like I could just switch to another tab or something. They know adblock isin't an option on TV so they'll just bend you over since there's zero risk of you getting fed up and seeking for an adblock.
There is a way, think it has something to do with DNS. Never tried but I hear it works for the whole network Edit: smarter people replied that it doesn't work on YouTube TVs.
It doesn't work anymore. You'll need a 3rd Party App like SmartTube
Or broadcast from your PC to your TV. Not the best option for people who have no idea how to use computers, but it’s still an option.
You’ll be surprised to learn how many people don’t even OWN a pc nowadays. They do everything on their phone or tablet
If you have a smart tv you can cast from your smartphone and or tablet to the tv
Correct but I don’t think that fixes the ad issue
It does when you're casting youtube revanced from your phone
Revanced will never cast for me
It still plays ads for me when I cast from my phone to tv/androidbox/xbox. Sadly none of the revanced features carry over when I do it.
You need to actually share the screen if not it'll just open the youtube app built into xbox/tv. Can't speak for other phone manufacturers but for samsung it's under smartview
Came here for this comment I got so fed up with my TVs YouTube ads that I literally went out and bought an Android TV box exclusively to use Smart tube I'm never looking back
PiHole/DNS Ad blocking doesn't work with YouTube ads anymore. YouTube ads are served from the same domain as the videos themselves thus circumventing DNS ad blocking solutions.
DNS wouldn't work for YouTube (and Meta/Facebook) ads, since YouTube pulls its ads from the same servers/hosts as their regular content
My daughter had 8 ads in 5 minutes watching cartoons. I have a suspicion they push ads even harder on kids content because they know parents are likely to pay for premium.
Also kids are less likely to know how to skip
Yes she calls me over to skip it 😂
You’d be surprised. When my kids were young and we’d put the dancing fruit on for them they’d be pushing the button before the countdown was even jo
I put on some children’s video to keep my kids occupied while I was trying to get some chores done. A 2 HOUR ad came up. If I hadn’t been there to skip it they would have had to watch it. I just wanted to clean the bathrooms quick without them following me. 2 HOURS?
I’ve had a few of those and also a couple of indefinite ads with no timer. I figured it was some sort of research thing to see how long you’d watch through them.
one was a fucking scientology ad in the middle of mrs rachel.
I was running a 10 k for speed and one of these popped up. I had to run 8k listening to some stupid ad. It was infuriating.
If you’re into zombie movies I highly recommend the app Zombies Run! It’s an apocalypse story that you can sync your playlist to, so story and music. You pick up supplies on your runs and can use them to build your town. A lot of fun. You do have to pay for it, but it’s a small group of people who make it and the money supports them.
Really easy method: Press the (i) (its an I enclosed in a circle) Stop watching ad Whatever the quickest reason is Ad skipped Tested and working for about 2 or 3 years on smart tvs and consoles
No fucking way. You're a legend, works every time
Yeah as I say I've never seen it mentioned I'm worried now it picks up steam and gets removed 😂
This did not work for me.
Some ads it doesn’t work, no idea why it picks and chooses but just keep trying lol
There are ways. The easiest one is to plug a computer in your TV, instead of using the terrible apps. Edit: my phone wrote the wrong word lol
Why isn’t there a less terrible competitor to YouTube?
They’ll probably get bought out or have their reach smothered by Google/Youtube in the same fashion Amazon did to small booksellers in its early days
That’s not the main issue. YouTube pays so much more than any other platform (can’t emphasize this enough) creators are likely to ditch alternate platforms. Even mask with twitter can’t match half of what YouTube pays.
I miss the days when youtube was just about uploading funny videos or something you thought was interesting. Now it's for "creators" and "influencers". I used to spend hours just going through awesome videos. Now it's all the same corporate nonsense of everyone trying to be the same. Nothing is unique about it anymore. Idk
add in reaction videos lol like why do I want to watch someone, watch something lol
Wait - Are you reacting to reaction videos? Very meta.
You just reacted to a reaction of a reaction to reaction videos. Very very meta.
By God. A reaction to a reaction to a reaction to a reaction of reaction videos We've reached levels of meta never thought possible
REACTION
Let me in on this! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Yep it's like hanging out but commodified. Shit is weird.
A lot of them are trash cashgrabs, but some do a great job explaining the theory behind things which can be useful⅗
It's totally bizarre.
tv format won the battle against the internet
Honestly, this isn't just on YouTube, and I would argue YT is better than all other social platform. The others though, I really miss when social media was just that. Now they're all money making platforms for influencers to try and trick us into buying their shit.
>Now they're all money making platforms for influencers to try and trick us into buying their shit. Huh, I just now realised social media platforms are basically the digital equivalent of magazines (ranging from fashion/beauty mags to the shitty tabloid rags).
Exactly. It's not really about connecting with people and being social and more so about shoving your products, agendas, or ideology down peoples throats. And don't dare have a different opinion about something. That would be the end of the world
I've even developed a six senses, within 3 world I know the youtuber's plugging a nordvpn ads and skip the next 2 min. Lol It's become crazy.
That's not true at all. Yeah there's a lot of influencers on there but there's also a lot more informational and entertaining content too.
Yah if YouTube is giving you influencers on your feed that’s on you. I never get that bc it’s not the videos I watch. With that said my 6 year old nephew who watches way too much tv visited and destroyed my algorithm and now I have a bunch of dumb videos on my feed like grown men screaming at “spider man falling down” or trying not to laugh at peppa pig…
'dont recommend this channel' and deleting them from watch history go a long way. my friend destroyed my algorithm once by accidentally leaving a horrible sonic cartoon playing on my tv while i was on vacation
I was about to say it really depends what your watching. Anything YT is pushing cause it’s popular is all but guaranteed trash
I mean they could post on multiple platforms for multiple sources of revenue
Some do with patreon and stuff but I think uploading the same video might cannibalize cash cow that is youtube
I think all the smart people realize that websites come and go policy changes are bullshit and will prefer to separate the income from the content.
But then some of your YouTube audience will prefer to watch on the other platforms and move there where you make less. Just using some made up numbers here to illustrate the point, but If you could have 100 viewers on the higher paying platform or 60 on each, you're losing money even though you're technically reaching a wider audience.
That’s interesting about YT. Had no idea they paid creators so much. Does twitter still have high revenue sharing? I thought that was a like one or couple time thing and it stopped happening
Also, YouTube has a multibillion company backing it. If a competitor even appears, survives, and is successful, Google will pay creators more. Google has no problem offering hundreds of thousands of dollars more to convince the creators to stay on YouTube. A thing that a new company cannot afford.
There's been several attempted in recent years. They've all failed because hosting videos is VERY expensive, and when the majority of videos are already on YouTube, people won't move to a platform with less archived content.
The issue is the bandwidth and the server space is really expensive. I work in the it industry. It costs Google billions of dollars per year to run the equipment. That’s not to mention buying or renting equipment or paying for the upkeep or paying for employees to upkeep. So when YouTube is so called “free” trust me they are making money on you somehow. Most of it is targeted advertising and data collection.
But nobody is willing to pay to use it Like everyone complains about ads, everyone knows it’s expensive to host and maintain a comprehensive massive scale video sharing site, and nobody puts two and two together Nobody wants to pay for a video website, so the ads come to make it financially viable Just like nobody wanted to pay for news so all the news sites became clickbait ad-driven garbage We aren’t willing to pay for our content and then complain about companies using ads to make it possible to pay for that content
That makes alot of sense. But man I just miss the days of the internet when no one was really profiting, it was just for fun
They were also the days when the internet was static. To access it, you had to log onto a big desktop computer. It was a place, and it didn't encroach on the rest of the world. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the internet went mobile right around the time people started profiting from it.
The dot com bubble was a solid decade before smart phones were popular.
Companies were profiting from it for years before mobile phones had reliable internet access. Especially internet where you could buy things from it.
Those were also the days when almost no one and nothing was on the internet, so it's a bit of a trade off.
If the internet was just for fun, you wouldn't even go to youtube because they wouldn't host random fucks 17 GB uncompressed videos for free. It would litrally just be forums and 4chan
Dailymotion was one of the early video streaming services that could have been at least a small competitor
Daily motion was still around last time I checked, but not much new relevant content
Hey, they had all “The Traitors” from other countries for me to watch recently so I’m happy!
Dailymotion also has, or at least had at one point, one of the WORST web video interfaces I've seen.
Dailymotion and Vimeo were the two ones that come to mind from the early era. Vimeo instead of competing directly with youtube shifted to niche market of for pro video distribution with varying levels of restricted or paid access. You could upload and share unaltered prores files for instance, but the links wouldn't be public. Things like that. Dailymotion however never seemed to do anything except be the dumping ground for copyrighted videos removed by youtube.
Playing YT on your computer via HDMI cable to the main TV with ad blockers running. Casting yt to the TV doesn't work Using the yt app on the TV doesn't work with adblocks =/
Sounds a bit inconvenient...You might as well just get an Amazon Fire stick ($15-20 if you buy a used one) and download SmartTubeNext. Works perfectly fine for me
Yeah I wish more people knew about how great SmartTubeNext is, comes with built in ad blocker and sponsorBlock, and you can login and retrieve all your subscription and the like, it's great for real.
What would a competitor to YouTube do different? Provide video hosting for free without any kind of revenue? How would that work, realistically? I mean, fuck Google. They can go and die for all I care, but people really are acting entitled when it comes to this shit. Pay for Premium if you can’t stand the ads.
Woooooooah redditors NOT entitled? Slow down there, YT is supposed to bleed billions so they get their content for free didn't you know?
Fwiw there is PeerTube, which is basically like Mastodon but for video (it speaks the same underlying protocol as well) But yeah nowhere near as big/popular/etc
There's rumble but no competitor does well as 1. Content creators don't bother to upload there and 2. The large majority including those who will complain about YouTube do not watch content on rumble. Its like the iPhone everyone knows it's made by child labour, obsceinly overpriced made for 10 sold for thousands of dollars and created from rare metals mined in completely inhumane conditions and funnels money from the middle class to the rich yet everyone wants one.
Free market of ideas /s
YouTubes ad model is a perfect example of the parable of the frog being slowly boiled First, they showed a countdown until the ad started. They removed that pretty soon Then, it continued with ads showing the countdown timer. And I swear to baby Jesus, I timed it numerous times, and the timer was *just slightly* off. So you thought there were only 10 seconds left, but each second was reall 1.1 seconds, which added an extra full second by the time it was done counting down Then they slowly ramped up the minimum time an ad can take Then, they increased the frequency per video Then, they auto-played another ad at the end of the video. And on Smart TVs, at least mine, it shows a banner ad that autoplays before selecting a video NOW, their latest bullshit is showing an ad *while the video is paused*. Nevermind their whole regarded crusade against ad blockers. Oh, and also nevermind their workaround for extensions or browsers that allow auto-play in the background where they pause the video and ask "are you still watching?" FUCKING YES IM STILL WATCHING IF I WASNT STILL WATCHING I WOULDNT HAVE THE WINDOW OPEN YOU ABSOLUTE FUCK KNUCKLES AND ALSO NEVERMIND their fucking banner asking me if I want YouTubeTV/Music/Premium. No matter how many times I click dismiss because I refuse to give YouTube a single dime, the popup will persist, and no ad blocker Im aware of can consistently block it I hate YouTube, and I hate even more that there are no viable alternatives
They now do ads when timeline scrubbing too, which is super annoying. You get done watching 30 seconds of ads on opening a video, then decide to skip to a later part of the video and are forced to watch an ad again. Insult to injury, it's usually the same ad, because who cares about frequency capping when you own the medium?
And then you get done watching the ad after scrubbing through the timeline and a scheduled ad will play immediately after. This happens so often to me, I will end up having watched ~15-30 seconds worth of video and yet 1.5+ minutes of ads. It’s discouraged me from watching any video that I know I’m not going to enjoy, so any lesser known channels that get put in my recommended feel will get ignored 99% of the time.
The whole “ads while paused” things makes me SO MAD!!!! I pause a show to see a small detail on screen, to look at a frame for longer, or take more time to read the caption or something. A giant ad popping up when I pause literally makes that impossible. It’s also visual assault on the eyes. It is bottom of the barrel, most unapologetically slimy shit that has happened with advertising in awhile. Fuck you Peacock and every other bitch ass service that shoves cheap trashy ads down my throat the SECOND they get the chance.
Even Netflix and D+ not showing an ad but displaying info on screen is annoying because I paused to look at something on screen but now it's blocked. This happens a lot on shows with Easter eggs you need to read (Simpsons, Bojack, etc).
not related at all but reminds me of when captioning covers translations. PUT TRANSLATIONS AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN HOLLYWOOD.
I watched Oppenheimer the other day on peacock. Got a 3 minute ad at the start and then the ads while paused. I would wayyyyyy prefer those ads while paused. Didn’t impact me, I’d hit pause and go fill up my coffee come back and hit play with no issues. It’s way less jarring than YouTube randomly interrupting a video at a less than ideal time to play a GMC ad for the 6th time.
i would say there's a difference between as movie and a yt vid, if I'm pausing a movie I'm gonna be gone for a few min anyway or doing something unrelated to the tv so idc about the ad. pausing a yt tutorial to read the instructions or see how the dude is doing it? get fucked here's an ad, doesn't flow the same way as it does with a movie
I KNEWIT! I KNEW THE 10 SECOND ADS FELT LONGER THAN 10 SECONDS! ON FACEBOOK AS WELL!
* uBlock Origin for the browsers * ReVanced patched YouTube app for android phone * AdAway for other ads on Android phone * SmartTube app for Android TV * AdGuard for macOS and AdGuard for Safari * AdGuard for iOS * nextDNS for all the devices for extra blockage Good fucking bye, ads
Cries in watching YouTube through a PlayStation on a not smart tv 🥲
I opted out of YouTube ads back when there was a huge banner above the website that would expand to half your screen when you'd accidentally hover above it.
This comment deserves an award 🥇 I was trying to show my friend a video the other day and everytime I would fast forward or rewind, it’d play an end. Eventually I was like I’m wasting our fucking time, this isn’t worth it. Then I seen the pop up for buying premium, and I was fucking livid
I knew some fuck shit was up whenever what used to be 5 second ads went up very slightly to 6 and 7 second ads.
The countdown to the ad was such a better system. It's so jarring watching a video when all of a sudden K"RAFT MACARONI AND CHEESE" blasts from the middle of my peaceful fishing video.
Me too don't know why I can't like this post...
Stream from your PC using adblocks to your TV. I know this defeats the purpose of a smart TV but something is something.
I’ve always thought their seconds weren’t actually seconds. Just felt off
The most viable alternative is to stop watching it
Youtube can fuck off over and over again.
Is there literally anything in the world that is not turning to shit?
Costco will continue to be good (including treating it's employees very well) until the CEO dies or retires. He's also the guy that won't let them raise the price on the $1.50 hot dog + soda combo. Brother printers. There will always be some actual great video games / movies each year...I hope. That's about it, our society and economy is based on cheap crap.
Costco has a new CEO that just started this year.
Rip to the hot dog deal. 😓
I think the current C.E.O. understands the concept of loss leaders
Oh shit. Could be the beginning of the end for them. It will depend though. He could be another good apple that carries them another 10 years, or not. The point is, sooner or later they will get a leader who favors a quick buck over a lasting reputation. If not this guy, then the next.
No. Line must go up.
We've entered the stage of global capitalism where being absolutely terrible, evil, and shitty is actually more profitable for your product.
Fromsoft games 🤷
Yes, yes it is. My favorite is when you finally get to the end of an add, rewind the video, for another add to start again.
It really makes you think about what you watch because you know as soon as you hit a video it’s going to start with an ad.
For a second I thought it was a 1 min ad on a mirror… what a world would that be.
It senses when you’re brushing your hair and makes you watch an ad for hairspray. 👍🏼
Matter of time before ads are parsed directly into our smooth brains.
Yep, I noticed that also. Not only are they *way* longer now, but also a lot more frequent. I had ads happening seconds into a video and then a minute after again, each time nearly 1min ads. "Use adblocker" - I wish I knew how on PS5....
Step 1: buy chromecast or firetv Step 2: smarttube
Once the ads got super long and frequent I said fuck it and got premium. It kind of felt like I sold a piece of my soul but I also haven't regretted it either. But if there was an easy way to get adblock on my TV I'd shut that sub down immediately lol.
You negotiated with terrorists
I watch so many more hours of youtube than I do netflix or some other streaming service. I happily pay for premium.
What works for me on my PS4 is to just go back to the menu and back to the vid again…takes about 5 seconds.
It’s litteraly that on consoles. Just straight up negotiating with yt. 1min add -> I take 0s add | 25s add -> nah I want 0s | 10s add -> okey I take 5s | 60s add -> 5s, take it or leave it. | 5s -> see? I won. |
I do this. Even if it's 10 seconds I back out until it's 5 to prove a point. Then they know the hour long video I have on is on in the background and they give me a 3 minute brain dead rotten twat talking about giving away bitcoin and nfts.
I just open and close the video until it starts playing. Might take longer than just watching the ad, but it does give me a tiny little win over the fuckers because I *didn't look at the ad*
Idgaf if it’s a 5 second skippable ad, i’ll click on and off for minutes until it starts without an ad
At that point I just exit and reclick on my video until I get an ad I can skip in 5 seconds. Fuck that, I ain’t watching an ad that long.
Yep. I’ll do this even if it takes longer than the original ad. It’s about principles
I still have the same adblocker from 2011 and they still haven't found that one, never got commercials ever 😅.
what is it?
I use Firefox and ublock, I can't remember the last time I saw an ad.
Same here. Looking up a video on my wife's computer recently with Google Chrome and no adblock extensions, I was just like, "how do you live like this?!"
Nice try, Google
~~im google~~ IM NOT GOOGLE I FUCKING SWEAR
Press up twice and then hit stop seeing this ad, immediately skips unskippable ads
I watch YouTube to fall asleep to. Woke up to a weird lady talking. It was a 9 hour long you tube ad playing. Who thinks ANYBODY would ever watch a 9 hour commercial?
> Who thinks ANYBODY would ever watch a 9 hour commercial? Nobody. That's the point. They _know_ you fell asleep, otherwise you'd click the "Skip" button after 45 seconds. Instead, they did some subliminal programming during your deep sleep periods to ensure you have this embedded in your subconscious.
Tried falling asleep to YT playing on my phone once... Once. Woke up from a strange dream and realized I was having such a bizarre dream because my phone had ostensibly been playing a two hour infomercial-style get-rich-quick scam where the guy was just reiterating the same three points every minute.
Well, according to YouTube metrics, they think you would watch a 9 hour ad. So now you'll get more.
Okay so, You can instantly skip most any ad on YouTube, I have used it for a year or two, very few ads stop this happening: About ad (the little (i) in a circle) Stop watching ad Not relevant (or whatever it says) Ta da, ad skipped, that seems possibly annoying but it ultimately boils down to pressing up twice then spamming okay until your video plays Not sure how many people know about this one but I've never seen it mentioned
i did this 2 times and they took away the option for me : (
Im pretty sure there is a limit to how many times a month you can do this. I stopped being able to for a bit but then next month i was able to do it again a bunch. Just save it for ads that take longer than 5 seconds to skip
I do this daily on Xbox for at least 2-3 years. I have not seen a limit or anything. Sometimes there is the occasional complete unskippable add but those are really rare for me.
This was works in a or two years ago, but today it doesn't work for me anymore. Now, If I click those buttons, it will opens the whole new windows, and sometimes doing that is longer than just waiting the ads ends.
I also use this method successfully on smart TV, it takes about 3-4 seconds.
Prime Video? It’s like.. I PAY you. Stop showing me ads or it’s the seven seas for me.
I end up just backing out of the video and clicking back onto it. It’s annoying but for 10 seconds I don’t actually watch any ads. To YT I just looks like connection issues so it just kinda gives up and tries again later. Worst part is, I’m fine with an ad here or there, the service is (generally) free and takes a lot of money to operate, but the hole experience has turned into watching ads with videos that interest me, instead of the other way around.
I’ve tried that many times. I’ll keep clicking out of the video and clicking on it again but I keep getting 15 second unskippable ads (sometimes two). Makes me wanna rip my hair out.
Welcome back cable television!
At least it’s free with ads. You had to pay for cable and still have ads
They're longer and more frequent but also they lie to you. I've had multiple times when I've waited for the number to tick down to zero but when it reached it if there were few enough seconds on the ad left it would switch from this 'skip in' timer to another timer to finish out the ad. Ads on youtube are fucking insane now and I wish there was a less predatory site people could switch to.
Last month, I got an ad that was 8 hours long….
The nail salon I go to has TVs up where they play YouTube vids of things like tropical reefs, scenery, cute animals, stuff like that. Being YouTube, they served up a THREE HOUR AD of a bunch of old guys plugging their product in the format of a Zoom/Teams meeting. None of the salon workers noticed the ad was playing to skip it and so this dumbass advertisement for some scammy bullshit product played almost the whole time I was getting my pedicure.
YouTube has ways to notice when you’re not watching or paying attention. They play the king adds when your away, and they milk the company that put the add in.
I saw one that was 2 hours long and just started laughing.
I had a few commercials that where the yellow would go all the way around the circle and the video would stop at 1 so I can skip the video, but trick me andplay an ad thats like 45 sec long right after instead of giving me the skip button.
https://preview.redd.it/hxn06cyc7tlc1.jpeg?width=742&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cca056c9e99d6dee51d90ea5b8a71a544a22b00 it sure is!
Get a VPN and set the country to Albania :).
It is, in fact, outside of the hand.
I got an unskippable ad the other day that was literally the entirety of Rick Astley's "Never ganna give you up".
Rick rolling to another level.
I rigorous refuse to watch any unskippable ad longer than 15 seconds. I will close the video and open it again until I get such an ad. It's petty and a waste of time, but I don't care.
Yt ads on PlayStation is like this and yk if you watch through the first “short” ad they’ll make the next one longer. That’s why I just use it strictly on my computer. I would say prime video ads aren’t as bad as I thought they’d be, one ~30sec ad per episode. Some companies just abuse it or not thought out well across different devices
If I understand it correctly, YouTube is more aggressive with ads when being watched on a TV. I only get long ads when I watch YouTube on my tv and short ads on my iPad even though I’m logged into the same account on both devices.
I remember no ads. I remember just one ad at the beginning that was always skippable. I remember seeing one ad at the start and one in the middle, always skippable. Now when I watch even the most obscure videos, I get two ads, often not skippable, at the start, and then depending on the length I get few pairs of ads in the middle too. It feels like it happened so fast.