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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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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is going to end up affecting mostly house-bound poor people.

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

I would imagine most things do. Aside from like, idk, road construction

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"I'm tired, boss"

-me, a warpstream user

edit for clarification: I started using warpstream through protoweb because of how unbearable YouTube has gotten, even through newpipe

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

laughs in Invidious

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't mind long ads in fact I am happy that they are unskippable. Too bad i don't get any cause I block that shit.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

I see this comment managed to get a few people in the first half.

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