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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads! (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 2 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

PeerTube has entered the chat

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

Im seeing more ads getting through ublock origin.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

What’s crazy is when you actually want to watch an ad (like a game or movie trailer, or a review of a product you’re considering buying), and you have to watch an ad to watch the ad. You’d think videos advertising a commercial product would pay a fee to cover the ads.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I mean, I'm not.

[–] tresspass@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The day ad block stops working is the day I stop using sites with ads

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i'm seriously amazed by many people's ability to ignore and withstand those annoying ads lmao. even a tiny banner one some website is enough to trigger me to create a new ublock filter...

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Family member spends all day every day recording and editing videos for youtube. Never finds an audience. Never gets promoted. The service is too busy pushing AI slop. All that video storage for the long tail of content with almost no views must cost a fortune. Meanwhile big quality youtubers seem to not be growing for some time like they have hit a ceiling. I think Youtube has been in decline for some time. Instead of fix it, which would require investment and ideas, I think they pull the usual bad US MBA style management practice and attempt to maximise revenues on the way down until they finally kill it.

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[–] Cherry@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

I have not bothered with YouTube since ads and the stupidity at volume kicked in. So glad I am not trapped into it. Video content has a place but it’s bloated and predatory thanks to clickbait and monetisation. For that reason the good content gets lost/shunned on my behalf.

[–] Jalfred_prurock@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What is adblock? Can someone explain it to me like I'm five?

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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Who’s these users? I have an ad blocker. It does the job.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Easy, I'll just switch to... Oh, right, it's a monopoly, who would have thought they'd offer a shitty service for "free"?

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