YouTube: 5 ads the norm now?

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

For context I’m in the US. The last time I used YouTube without an ad blocker, there were 2 ads back to back, and way too frequently. I tried watching on my PlayStation tonight, and not only are they more frequent, they’ve increased in quantity by 150%. It’s also very common for the last ad to last 2 minutes to over an hour long. What the actual fuck, why would anyone watch YouTube without an ad blocker at this point? It’s literally unwatchable

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foggy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bruh, Adblock. Vanced.

There are ways.

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- Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You lack reading comprehension
  
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  - Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I always wondered but, do pi-holes work on consoles/smart TVs?
    
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- Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Bruh. PlayStation.
  
  No AdBlock, no vanced. There are no ways.
  
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  - foggy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My dude are you browsing Lemmy on your PlayStation?
    
    Grab a chromecast HDMI stick and just stream it from your phone. There are ways.
    
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  - 520@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pihole. It's a hardware device that plugs into your router and blocks traffic to known advert domains.
    
    It works network-wide, so this works even on non-standard platforms like Playstation.
    
    Like the above poster said, there are ways. Just not the ones they suggested.
    
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  - 520@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pihole. It's a hardware device that plugs into your router and blocks traffic to known advert domains.
    
    This works even on non-standard platforms like Playstation.
    
    Like the above poster said, there are ways.
    
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1984@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Seems users get used to that shit and they don’t think its too bad. I’m also shocked that people can get used to it, but it was the same in the 80s with cable TV having tons of ads. People actually thought it was fine to wait during 7 minute ad breaks several times through a TV show or movie. Because they increased the ads slowly, just like YouTube does.

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dadGPT@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
yes

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Blueneonz@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Haven’t had more than 2 ads per ad break yet but have seen the frequency go up on some videos. Some videos have only a beginning ad while some have 2 or 3+ ad breaks. The extremely popular youtubers usually get the 3+ ads from my experience.

The ad duration also went up to 20-30 seconds with 10 seconds sprinkled in. It doesn’t matter if I back out of videos anymore, it seems that the beginning ads are fixed to whatever duration they are. All of this happened when they rolled out the buggy circle timer.

I have no doubt that this will get even worse next year. It’s just on the tv I use the youtube app, so if push comes to shove I will go back to fully using newpipe.

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w3dd1e@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I got a VPN and got YouTube premium for like $2.50 on an Ukraine server.

I would just try ublock but I watch in my tv a lot too

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tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No idea. I’ve almost completely stopped using the site. I won’t use it on my ps5 for the exact reason you mentioned.

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