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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 1 month ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I recently set up a local instance of Invidious. All the devices on my network can use it and there are 0 ads. There are some free public instances, also.

Not as easy (or portable) as ad block, but I’m a fan.

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah this sucks, but do they have any alternatives? How else do they make money? Or is everyone mad because the amount of ads they show is disproportionate to the amount of ads they need to show?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No one here wants to talk about the realities of running such a massive video hosting operation.

No one is a serious competitor due to how large of a mountain it is to climb to compete. With every minute that goes by, YouTube becomes even more massive.

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I feel like a decade or two (damn) ago now DailyMotion really had a chance man even Vimeo there for a min but then its like they just gave up fr.

It was kind if interesting to see people using Pornbub there for a min and it would have been cool for them to try and lean into that more with like a sfw variant of some sort (called something different) because they are probably one of the only companies that have the ability to do it honestly and even then, idk if they could really do it like YouTube does.

YouTube is the one single thing I haven't de googled myself from.

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[–] BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

YouTube Recanced all the way. I've had YouTube premium for free.99 going on 5 years now

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[–] sircac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I double dare you!

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