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Today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible.

In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end.

All were skippable after 5 sec.

2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video.

But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda.

I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Weirdly, and annoyingly, I get this same thing when watching YouTube on my TV (the quantity thing, not the war propaganda stuff. Just regular ads). Whether via Roku stick, Chromecast or anything. It's sometimes an ad every 2 minutes. However watching the same thing on a laptop or my phone even without any adblock and the video will play far better. Maybe 1 ad at the halfway point and nothing else.

I don't know why the TV version of YouTube is such an arse for ads. They're not even in clean places - I get an ad mid-sentence.

Honestly, for a 20 minute video I'd be perfectly ok with a 30 second ad or so. It helps the creators and isn't that much of a pain for me. But getting adverts every 2 minutes, even if they're skippable is just a horrific experience.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The time and set duration for their ads is based on viewer habits, so they are basically banking that you are too lazy to skip it or are out of the room and they can still claim they ran the whole ad.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently in a 5 minute video an ad came up that showed it was an hour and 10 minutes long. There is no good reason for that garbage

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude with kids cartoons it’s horrible. 5+ min ads disguised as cartoons for 2min videos. It’s absurd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you use the kids YouTube app then there are no ads. On tv, you can use the regular YouTube app to switch to your child’s account and then no more ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know. I just run freetube these days lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've noticed that as well. Its like YouTube is adding in extra ads for Roku et al. for their own profit..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try SmartTube https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, but I can't install into a Roku, which is the main TV I'd be using.