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For me it isn't the length, but the frequency that is bothering me. It's insain, it's like every 3-5 mins depending on the video length. It's unusable atleast in my case. Only watching from devices I have adblocker on now. Not my phone.
The ads themselves got worse too, not just about skipping them.
I see toooooooooo many ads about Taichi for men over 60. Fml, now it becomes Military calisthenic for men over 40.....
Also those ads with the zombie games....
The other day I was doing dishes and couldn't skip the ad, so I let the whole 90second ad run. Guess what followed? Another 90second ad.
Where?
Oh! On the web interface? n_n I don't use the web interface. It's video, so I use a video player. I see no ads, ~ if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.
on YouTube's TV app
That's where you went wrong. Come to the free software community. We can mend bugs (like malicious features (like ads)) with free software, being free to use, study, share & change the software.
It buffer stalls like crazy now also.
2036: You want to watch a 15 second clip of a kitten napping, it'll cost you a hour of ads!
It's like they want people to block ads holy crap. Next chance I get I'm installing invidious on my parent's roku so they can skip this garbage.
Do yourself a favor and never turn on WiFi on your smart TV, get an android streaming box, and install projectivy launcher on it. Then you can sideload smartube the adfree YouTube client with downvotes, dearrow and sponsorblock built in.
On screen ads, unskippable preroll ads, mid roll ads and multi hour long ads that never end, ads on the sides and underneath the videos, embedded AI to push up their numbers that bloats the webpage.
Then on top of that, double sponsors, hidden sponsors, scams and shitty merch.
I used to think YouTube was the new public broadcast system but honestly that was never this garbage.
At this point it would be smart to simply hook up any old pc to your tv and watch in the browser.
I keep my TVs dumb because of these shitshows, no network at all. Only display stuff from cable or from operator's box, but even the latter is seldom used.
Use a vpn with exit node in albania. No ada and no forced sign in.
