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So today I watched probably about 5 hours of youtube content and I think I only ran into about 2 ads during the entire experience I really don't experience that many ads on youtube anymore and I have turned off my ad blockers and such explicitly for Youtube since I wanted to give at least a little bit of ad revenue to the content creators that I watched at the time that I turned it off. Yet I continuously hear that people have been having problems with too many ads and that ads are ruining the experience on youtube. How many ads do people who watch without ad blocker get on a video such that it's seemingly ruining the experience?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always have UBlockOrigin active (to the point I even forget I'm running it) and a couple days ago I got my first YouTube ad in a pretty long time. Even then, it was all skippable stuff every 2-3 videos in a music playlist, so nothing to complain about really.

What I can't stand is when they appear mid video interrupting an interesting sequence. That's awful "greed before UX" design.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm even worse. I just pay for YouTube Premium. It's pretty worth. I get a full music streaming service and no ads for $13. It's actually such a good deal, that I'm judging whether or not to permanently drop Spotify.