# Apple TV / youtube upgrade guidance sought

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-tv-youtube-upgrade-guidance-sought/810077>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 5, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-tv-youtube-upgrade-guidance-sought/810077 "2018-03-05T20:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-tv-youtube-upgrade-guidance-sought/810077/1 "2018-03-05T20:40:33Z")

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I like to watch youtube through Apple TV. A few weeks ago, they did an upgrade and now youtube looks quite different and behaves differently, too.

I’ve mastered a couple of the basics, but one item looks permanently changed. You used to be able to “skip ad” by pressing a forward-jump button on the remote, but now that’s not working the way it used to. There’s still a greyed-out “skip ad” button when a commercial starts playing, but nothing I’ve tried actually skips over the ad.

Is this intentional, and now one must always watch ads? Or did they just make the ad-skipping function harder to find?