For fuck’s sake, there’s no need for a fucking ad every 45 seconds! I don’t need a fucking 6 second ad before every 30 second video and I don’t need you interrupting a 2 minute video after 45 seconds with a 15 second ad!
ENOUGH!
I get that the website wants to sell ads to make money, but JESUS FUCKING CHRIST back off a little already! Even the networks only showed a couple minutes of ads every 8 minutes; maybe use that as a metric instead of “another click = another 2 ads” you claggy-mouthed greedy fuckfaces, eh?
Cory Gardner (R-CO, for another few weeks), spent a lot of money on YouTube ads to convince my 7 year old to not vote for Hickenlooper. It must have worked, she did not vote for Hick. You know, if you’ve got a major political ad campaign targeting Minecraft let’s play videos, you’re doing it wrong.
Anyway, the point of that is for all of the annoyance they provide, I don’t think the ads are actually doing anything for the advertisers. Like the ones that are skipable before they mention the product.
It got bad enough that I found a solution to block YouTube ads on IOS without jailbreaking. I don’t remember if such talk is discouraged here. There is nothing illegal about it, for now, but I’ll leave it at saying it’s possible.
The ads suck. I keep getting one particularly annoying one for Postmates that starts, “Times are tough right now, but you don’t have to Pad Thai them alone. Talk to your Pad Thai today…”
Fortunately, that’s as far as I get, because I skip it after 5 seconds.
Although I very seldom see any ads on YouTube and am not a premium subscriber. Is this because I am in Europe (if so I guess it’s coming to us as well sooner rather than later) or because I use a simple ad-blocker on my browser?
What alternatives are there to You Tube if you want to watch music videos and some occasional lectures without feeding the FAANGs? I would be ready to go back to YT for occasional cute kitty video every now and then.
I keep getting ads for skiiing in Lombardy. The ski resorts are closed. The Italian government really doesn’t want visitors, especially from places, such as Switzerland, who have worse numbers.
So why are these ads running, and why am I getting them?
I have both Adblock Plus and UBlock, the latter a recent addition due to FB cracking Adblock. I never see ads on Youtube. When I’m on someone else’s computer, I can’t stand the ad vomit for more than 30 seconds, and leave the place pronto.
Not quite the same topic, but I recently converted from Google music to YouTube Music, because I had to. I uploaded my entire music library to YouTube Music.
But now, when I listen to my music, there is a 15 or 20 second ad between every second or third song. Repeat, it’s MY music that I uploaded.
