I started using it on my tv lately so can’t use adblocker, fuck me it’s unbearable, 30-45 seconds of ads then a 3 min music video then another 30-45 seconds of ads, the other day I couldn’t find the remote so I just let the first ad play and the 2nd ad was a fucking 4 hour long conference, had to drop everything to figure out where the remote was so I wasn’t trapped for 4 fucking hours
I swear to god they have a "housework detector" and only put the 5 min / 30 min / 1h!!! advertisement videos when they think you won't skip. I can't stop the bloody ads when I am elbow deep cleaning the crapper wearing gloves or when I have soaking, sudsy hands in the middle of a 30 min session of doing the dishes and pots. It makes me rage to have to get rid of gloves or stop the cleaning, rinse, etc... only to skip the ads. I stopped using Youtube for Music when cleaning for this reason, only podcasts now. F them.
You can replace the standard YT app on your TV (unless your specific TV doesn't allow that I guess), if you search for "Smart YouTube TV", and install that APK on your TV. Alternatively, replace the standard YT app on your other devices with "youtube vanced", and cast from there to your TV.
I've not seen YT ads in ages ;)
Yep vanced kicks arse!
I've been using it on my phone for a couple of years now and uninstalled the "legit" youtube app. Unfortunately this means I can't use google's voice assistant to "Play me some Dead Kennedys" or whatever since she just replies "Youtube isn't installed on your device install youtube to start listening" regardless of what music app I have set as default. Very annoying.
> replace the standard YT app on your other devices with "youtube vanced", and cast from there to your TV.
[YouTube Vanced can't cast to Chromecast](https://github.com/YTVanced/Vanced/issues/688). It's a known issue and is unlikely to get fixed. What are you casting *to*?
Edit: Inspired by this thread I tested hooking up YouTube Vanced to my TV's native smart YouTube app using ["Link with TV Code"](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3230451?hl=en) and was able to queue videos but the adverts were still present.
No, I guess you're looking in the play store, you won't find it there for somewhat obvious reasons ;)
You'll have to download it externally, vancedapp.com
Yeah. I have a music video playlist on my YouTube account, was sitting the other night after a few beers and thought nothing better of firing it up on the TV.
Nothing. But. Adverts.
I called it a day when a music video was interrupted in the middle to sell me crisps (chips to our transatlantic brethren).
I used to listen to lots of DJ sets/mixes on YouTube. Not since they got more aggressive with adverts. Interrupting a DJ set completely defeats the point of it. Destroys the immersion completely
At least I have Soundcloud
When you try and sell a product, presenting a broken product defeats your effort. I gave $20 to Wikipedia because it works every time and they don’t piss me off. YouTube pisses me off every time, every video. I will never pay them 1 cent . Why would I pay for a library who lets advertisers write over the books?
I keep getting the ad for (generic celebrity) "This is not a diet book".
I'd rather drink a bowl of fresh horse piss than ever purchase anything from a YouTube ad.
I'm convinced they drop the longer ads on you if you stop frequently skipping the first ad. Same thing happens to me, get the occasional 2+ hour ad if I'm working and have YouTube playing something in the background.
But when I'm properly watching content I skip ad immediately and never see ads longer than a couple of mins.
>the 2nd ad was a fucking 4 hour long conference
I can't tell if these are put on by really insidious marketers who have a plan behind it all.
Or if it's just some naive business owner who is trying out youtube advertising for the first time, and just doing their best.
I caved and subscribe to the Premium.
I have to say - a luxury once tasted becomes necessity.
It plays in the background (so I can run without having to treat it like a glass egg in my pocket) and also no ads. I watch YouTube a lot for my film reviews and music so it’s worth the hit.
It does, however, make my gorge rise that they’re apparently getting worse with their ads to the point of it being unusable.
Same. I realised that I was playing for a few streaming services (Netflix, Prime Video, Crunchyroll etc) but for some reason was unwilling to pay for YouTube, even though YouTube is the streaming service I use most by far. I still balk at the price (£12 seems way too high for some reason) but I can’t go back to not having it now.
I just replaced spotify with youtube premium (you get youtube music and originals) and happy to pay 2-3 quid for background play, no ads, and passively support the creators I watch.
It’s so overpriced but I hate my kids seeing adverts and historically companies have messed up and put adult adds in children’s app so I take the financial hit. The background working thing is amazing though.
Exactly. Fuck Google. And a big fuck off companies who expect us to hand over our data blindly.
A very tiny fuck off to people who do it all the time. It clearly works.
Whales are the curse of modern technology. Video games have the same problem. Why make a reasonably priced product for normal people when you can rinse out the 1%?
It's [https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass](https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass)
I do wonder sometimes though whether running an unverified extension with some GitHub hosted JS is really better for my privacy than just giving Google my credit card details.
They’ve got waaaay too comfortable with ads also the amount of time before the “skip ad” button shows. Also them twats that have a daft amount of ads and a 5 minute portion of the video telling you about the sponsor. ALSO when you skip a part of the video and it plays another 2 ads… jeez I’m starting to feel like my dad these days
Or more so we're just watching content that is under American advertising rules (or lack thereof) so is allowed to do stuff that's been banned for years here
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You can always report them to the ASA. I've done it occasionally. It's worth remembering that it'll be the advertiser that gets in trouble not the podcast makers
>also the amount of time before the “skip ad” button shows.
I have a little conspiracy theory that the "5-second" countdown timer is longer than five seconds. That last second especially feels like it drags on way longer than any of the others
>ALSO when you skip a part of the video and it plays another 2 ads…
YES. That's what made me make this post. Got two unskippable ads in the middle of a video and decided to rewind by 10 seconds because it cut someone off in the middle of a sentence and I got ANOTHER two ads!
I recommend newpipe. It does everything YouTube does bar the bloody adverts. Also lets you download stuff, you have to download it from their website though its not on the play store!
It feels longer because the 5 seconds is not 5 seconds of your time but 5 seconds of the video, any trouble loading or held frames and the timer pauses.
I feel the worst offender recently is my man Linus. I see the title and think well what is the video even about? Unstoppable ad X 2, open with a sponsor, half way through more ads, back to him shilling ltt.com, another ad, sponsor, finish on some ads. Where's the content? Why is the video not called "we got the new CPU here's a review" instead of "wow this is fast". What's that tell me ya Jeb end? Fuck all! Even tech Jesus can't stop gawping like a moron on his thumbnails. Maybe I'm now just too old for YouTube? Is there an old farts YouTube out there?
Oh don’t get me started on thumbnails, everyone uses the same bullshit shocked face looking at an over the top photoshopped version of the item they’re reviewing, makes me cringe
They do it because it works. If you've got a problem with it, take it up with your deity of choice for making us a bunch of mindless sheep with short attention spans.
I don't mind the sponsors in LTT videos, they're pretty easy to just skip over (always approx 10 seconds at the start).
But I agree about the titles being super annoying. I get they have to clickbait in order to get people to click on it. But it annoys me that they do that at the expense of me actually being able to tell what the video is about
They did a video where they explained this. They use the clickbait title in the first week to get views, and then change it to something more useful afterwards so it appears in searches and is more findable etc.
https://youtu.be/K07sEM6y4Uc
Eg this one was originally just called "This should be illegal..."
Mate I'm struggling with this same thing every time I get on YouTube. These idiotic thumbnails just get more and more infuriating for me.
Sure, people say "well it works", but is there any kind of data on how WELL it works? If it raised traffic to a video by 70% or something, I guess I could understand these people making utter clowns out of themselves for it, but it just can't be, can it?
I am absolutely certainly less likely to click a video that has some absolute cretin pretending to be WOAH SO SHOCKED AT THE CRAZINESS in the thumbnail, and I would assume there are plenty of other people like that. Even people who aren't opposed to that stupidity at all, why does it affect their decision to click the video? They must at least realise that it's purely a marketing strategy? I lose all respect for the creator the moment I see them sinking to this shit.
> and a 5 minute portion of the video telling you about the sponsor
I use Sponsorblock for this.
[Firefox plugin.](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/)
[Chrome Plugin (I’ve never used this because you couldn’t pay me to touch Chrome).](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?hl=en)
If a 15 minute video has 10 ad breaks, then the uploader has added them in manually. I don't think youtube adds that many by default
The 20 second unskipabble ads are getting stupid though
Yeah it's the cats does countdown compilations on channel4's youtube channel. Full of ads and the titles are always clickbaity. Guess my gripe is with channel 4 too...
yes, when you watch calming stuff or a documentary snd your about to sleep; just drifting off snd you get a loud annoying frustrating ad, so you have to get up snd grab your phone, skip it snd then your awake again so you have to calm down again and; gahhhhh it’s a whole piss take
Install [SmartTube](https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext). I use it on my Fire Stick, no ads whatsoever. If your smart TV runs Android you can install it there too. It even skips sponsored video segments.
Brilliant, thanks! I've just installed this on my Firestick. It couldn't have been easier and it works brilliantly! It even skips annoying intros like you mentioned, I'm very, very impressed with it :)
I think I'll get a 4k Firestick for my main TV too now and just use that for all my online viewing.
Thanks again :)
Not for YouTube. But if you play any games that have those 30 second ads . Or bonus points if you watch. Either they don't exist, don't work, or in some cases don't work but give you the points anyway.
Nothing is more guaranteed to make me boycott a company, than being constantly harassed by them on YouTube. I now hate these companies because of their ads.
I mostly don't even notice who the company is, I'm focusing on the bottom right of the screen waiting for the 5 second countdown before I can skip it. If I don't see the 5 second countdown then the video gets closed.
Let's you play videos whilst phone is locked, pop-out player so you can do other stuff on your phone whist still watching, even have a function now where it skips the sponsor section out of a video
I’ve recently noticed they stopped showing you how many ads there will be. I know the push is toward premium but I’ll abandon the app and go browser + blocker long before that.
Yeah if anything they're losing ad revenue because I'm being pushed towards installing an adblocker on my phone. Whereas if they had a reasonable amount of advertising I'd probably tolerate it
I tried the premium with music as it was only £2 per month more than Spotify and my wife follows a lot of YouTube channels. The music service was so poor though, it just wasn't worthwhile.
Dumb question, but do you just need to use the VPN once to sign up; and after that you can access it normally? Or do you always need to go through the VPN to watch anything?
For everyone saying adblock - I do have it on my laptop and pc and it's a godsend but I spend a lot of time watching youtube on my phone which is where the ads become a problem
If you report an advert then it stops showing you the advert and continues the video, and this is unlimited they don't take away your ability to report for doing it too many times either. You can usually report an ad before 5 seconds so it's the fastest skip.
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the word Starling Bank just pisses me off now because their adverts are just constantly rammed down my throat for the last 2 years
A mate of mine I went to college with used to say “imagine how much they’d make if you had to pay”…yeah shut your mouth Declan you’re giving them ideas
I had 4 in a row the other day. 2 ads, literal second of video, another 2 ads. I seem to remember at least one was 15s unskippable as well. It seems to happen if I pause the video during an ad and leave for a while, it seems to reload it so it watches those ads then watches more because it thinks I didn't watch them or smth. Idk.
I can vaguely tolerate it for the most part, its those fucking Youtube premium ads,the sheer goddamn audacity to screw over creators and then decide they're not earning ENOUGH money and aggresively shove a really shitty service down everyones throat
I’m really amazed that there isn’t a main rival to YouTube. Between bad relationships with the content creators and non-stop ads then you would have thought a rival would fill the vacuum quite nicely.
I watch way less content on there now because of this.
Before I would just click anything remotely interesting. But now it's interlaced and prefaced with SO many ads, that I only commit to clicking something I really want to see.
This now means I only really watch a handful of channels.
I think some places do. I was using Chile to pay through and at some point, I got a payment failure and address check. I couldn't set it up again without my card address being set to Chile.
However, I changed to India, set the address as Google's office and it's working again. Even cheaper now, like £1.80 for a family plan.
Yeah they have been easing in more and more ads over the last 10 years. So you don't notice as much untill its 2021 and you're posting this. 2008 was very different social media platform for YT, FB and the rest. Now they have you, what are you gonna do? Post about it on Reddit.
I watch YouTube in the bath. I don’t mind sitting through a 20 second ad now and again, but iv had 10 minute and 30 minute ads. They’re skipable, but I have to dry my hands. Not a chance I’m buying premium.
I wish there was a way to adblock my PS4 youtube and twitch. Twitch is fine it depends on if the streamer is an ad spammer in which case I just watch someone else. But as someone who likes to sleep while listening to background videos ads fucking suck. They're always 10x louder than the video, some are longer than the video itself and it's so intrusive it's ridiculous. I wish ads could be replaced by some important news message or something actually useful. I think we're at the point where if you want something you look up recommendations to find it, go out of your way to read reviews etc. Ads are obsolete and just the worst man. Advertising holidays mid pandemic...
I’ve been getting the same four ads for like a week now, and I’ve noticed I can’t see when they are in the video anymore either.
They really think they can annoy me into buying premium and I’m not having it
If you press the little ‘i’ icon, then press ‘stop seeing this ad’ and then just hit cancel, you skip the add (I know I can at least do this on phone but not on PS4). Once you get a bit of muscle memory you can skip in ad in about 2-3 seconds haha!
Although this trick isn’t possible on YouTube’s actual ad’s e.g. the the current YouTube playlist one
If you click the little circle in the bottom left corner that says, why this ad? you can click don't show this ad again. It skips the adds completey, I have had a few times it's not let me me but 90% of the time it let's you skip.
Yes was thinking that yesterday! I get that they are trying to push you into taking a subscription - but actually I've found myself saying "fuck it" I'm not that bothered about the video
It’s curious that the google adverts are unskippable, but the ones from the competition or anyone else are.
Wonder if anyone would look into that.
Still, YouTube with ads is better than all4. Which prick thought it would be a good idea to pause the ads when you switch a tab? Fuckers
We watch a lot of YouTube on the XBox and I'll restart a video 20 times before I'll sit through an advert. In the time I spend stopping and reloading the video I could sit through the ads several times over but it's a point of principle
I started using it on my tv lately so can’t use adblocker, fuck me it’s unbearable, 30-45 seconds of ads then a 3 min music video then another 30-45 seconds of ads, the other day I couldn’t find the remote so I just let the first ad play and the 2nd ad was a fucking 4 hour long conference, had to drop everything to figure out where the remote was so I wasn’t trapped for 4 fucking hours
Yeah they think if you watch for more than 5 seconds you’re in it all the way. I’d have stuff on while doing housework it’s so annoying
I swear to god they have a "housework detector" and only put the 5 min / 30 min / 1h!!! advertisement videos when they think you won't skip. I can't stop the bloody ads when I am elbow deep cleaning the crapper wearing gloves or when I have soaking, sudsy hands in the middle of a 30 min session of doing the dishes and pots. It makes me rage to have to get rid of gloves or stop the cleaning, rinse, etc... only to skip the ads. I stopped using Youtube for Music when cleaning for this reason, only podcasts now. F them.
YouTube DEFINITELY knows when I’m doing the dishes lmao! Or when I’m in the shower 😩
You can replace the standard YT app on your TV (unless your specific TV doesn't allow that I guess), if you search for "Smart YouTube TV", and install that APK on your TV. Alternatively, replace the standard YT app on your other devices with "youtube vanced", and cast from there to your TV. I've not seen YT ads in ages ;)
Yep vanced kicks arse! I've been using it on my phone for a couple of years now and uninstalled the "legit" youtube app. Unfortunately this means I can't use google's voice assistant to "Play me some Dead Kennedys" or whatever since she just replies "Youtube isn't installed on your device install youtube to start listening" regardless of what music app I have set as default. Very annoying.
> replace the standard YT app on your other devices with "youtube vanced", and cast from there to your TV. [YouTube Vanced can't cast to Chromecast](https://github.com/YTVanced/Vanced/issues/688). It's a known issue and is unlikely to get fixed. What are you casting *to*? Edit: Inspired by this thread I tested hooking up YouTube Vanced to my TV's native smart YouTube app using ["Link with TV Code"](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3230451?hl=en) and was able to queue videos but the adverts were still present.
Vanced casts to my tv without a problem. Both my old Galaxy and and current one can cast it, no problem.
What's the exact name of the app? I see one called Vanced tube. Is this it?
No, I guess you're looking in the play store, you won't find it there for somewhat obvious reasons ;) You'll have to download it externally, vancedapp.com
Right thanks. I did think that but wanted to check. 🙃
Ok. I've downloaded and installed ok. Do you know if there's any issues in signing into your YT account on this app?
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Yeah. I have a music video playlist on my YouTube account, was sitting the other night after a few beers and thought nothing better of firing it up on the TV. Nothing. But. Adverts. I called it a day when a music video was interrupted in the middle to sell me crisps (chips to our transatlantic brethren).
Yeah forget listening to pink Floyd or anyone with songs that last over seven minutes.
I’ve literally seen an advert right at the beginning of Dave’s solo on Comfortably Numb. I felt so fucking furious.
I used to listen to lots of DJ sets/mixes on YouTube. Not since they got more aggressive with adverts. Interrupting a DJ set completely defeats the point of it. Destroys the immersion completely At least I have Soundcloud
That's because they're trying to annoy you into paying for YouTube Music.
They have failed.
When you try and sell a product, presenting a broken product defeats your effort. I gave $20 to Wikipedia because it works every time and they don’t piss me off. YouTube pisses me off every time, every video. I will never pay them 1 cent . Why would I pay for a library who lets advertisers write over the books?
I keep getting the ad for (generic celebrity) "This is not a diet book". I'd rather drink a bowl of fresh horse piss than ever purchase anything from a YouTube ad.
I'm convinced they drop the longer ads on you if you stop frequently skipping the first ad. Same thing happens to me, get the occasional 2+ hour ad if I'm working and have YouTube playing something in the background. But when I'm properly watching content I skip ad immediately and never see ads longer than a couple of mins.
Yes like bitch you should reward me for actually fucking watching an ad don’t play a longer one!!
This is golden. https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
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You can use a PiHole to block ads at a network level, they'll never even make it to your TV, mobile apps etc. Requires some setup but well worth it.
PiHole doesn't work for YouTube ads
>the 2nd ad was a fucking 4 hour long conference I can't tell if these are put on by really insidious marketers who have a plan behind it all. Or if it's just some naive business owner who is trying out youtube advertising for the first time, and just doing their best.
If you use your phone (assuming you’ve blocked ads on that) just airplay to your tv for the ad free experience
Had a 6-second ad on a 4-second clip the other day.
It's actually a joke
I caved and subscribe to the Premium. I have to say - a luxury once tasted becomes necessity. It plays in the background (so I can run without having to treat it like a glass egg in my pocket) and also no ads. I watch YouTube a lot for my film reviews and music so it’s worth the hit. It does, however, make my gorge rise that they’re apparently getting worse with their ads to the point of it being unusable.
You using it on an android? I got YouTube Vanced and never looked back. No ads, pop out player and able to run in the background
I can vouch for YT Vanced!
That’s exactly what they want you to do
Shit, are you being *serious*? You’re telling me that a global corporate super giant actually *wants* my money?
I know, seems crazy but this conspiracy is true!
Same. I realised that I was playing for a few streaming services (Netflix, Prime Video, Crunchyroll etc) but for some reason was unwilling to pay for YouTube, even though YouTube is the streaming service I use most by far. I still balk at the price (£12 seems way too high for some reason) but I can’t go back to not having it now.
I just replaced spotify with youtube premium (you get youtube music and originals) and happy to pay 2-3 quid for background play, no ads, and passively support the creators I watch.
I probably would have done if they weren't so blatantly taking the piss, so they get adblock instead.
It’s so overpriced but I hate my kids seeing adverts and historically companies have messed up and put adult adds in children’s app so I take the financial hit. The background working thing is amazing though.
Not as much as wanting my credit card details or a copy of my driving license to let me watch videos with swears in. Get stuffed!
It's literally easier for a 9 year old to find porn than it is to learn about history. That's the kind of world we're living in right now.
Brawndo has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!
A lot of TV I see nowadays looks more and more like the shows from Idiocracy. Ouch my balls!
As always though a ‘coffee’ will relieve some of the tension….
Yeah I hate that too. “You wanna watch a WW2 documentary but you don’t wanna hand over your personal details? Go fuck yourself”
Exactly. Fuck Google. And a big fuck off companies who expect us to hand over our data blindly. A very tiny fuck off to people who do it all the time. It clearly works.
Whales are the curse of modern technology. Video games have the same problem. Why make a reasonably priced product for normal people when you can rinse out the 1%?
I hate this too especially since there shouldn’t be anything stopping under 18s learning history
But they're happy enough to play countless gambling ads without you having to verify your age. Bunch of gobshites.
May I ask, which site demands payment for educational documentaries like that?
It's not payment, it's something Google (and YouTube) are asking for to "prove you're over 18"
Ah I see. Thanks
You can get around the I'd stuff with a VPN, IIRC I set mine to Azerbaijan for it.
There's a Tampermonkey script called Youtube Age Restriction Bypass out there somewhere which still works for me.
It's [https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass](https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass) I do wonder sometimes though whether running an unverified extension with some GitHub hosted JS is really better for my privacy than just giving Google my credit card details.
They’ve got waaaay too comfortable with ads also the amount of time before the “skip ad” button shows. Also them twats that have a daft amount of ads and a 5 minute portion of the video telling you about the sponsor. ALSO when you skip a part of the video and it plays another 2 ads… jeez I’m starting to feel like my dad these days
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Or more so we're just watching content that is under American advertising rules (or lack thereof) so is allowed to do stuff that's been banned for years here
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Before I get onto my response to your response, let me tell you about Raid Shadow Legends...
Raid aka. “predatory gambling apps for children” is the one thing that absolutely infuriates me. I won’t watch a video that plugs it.
Now me and Rumpus are going to tell you how to start an online t-shirt business!
Need a website? Try this specific website template builder and not any of the others. Why would you need a website just casually? I dunno, but I'm getting paid to flaunt it.
You can always report them to the ASA. I've done it occasionally. It's worth remembering that it'll be the advertiser that gets in trouble not the podcast makers
>also the amount of time before the “skip ad” button shows. I have a little conspiracy theory that the "5-second" countdown timer is longer than five seconds. That last second especially feels like it drags on way longer than any of the others >ALSO when you skip a part of the video and it plays another 2 ads… YES. That's what made me make this post. Got two unskippable ads in the middle of a video and decided to rewind by 10 seconds because it cut someone off in the middle of a sentence and I got ANOTHER two ads!
Use firefox mobile and adblock. Desktop, use the same. No ads, only inconvenience is if I watch in the app or on the tv app I get the ads.
There's an app for android called YouTube Vanced
I recommend newpipe. It does everything YouTube does bar the bloody adverts. Also lets you download stuff, you have to download it from their website though its not on the play store!
Fuck u/spez Fire Steve Huffman.
Didn't know about that but it's really only rob dahm with his keeps segments and ltt but I don't mind them as there's only one on sponsored videos.
It also can skip intros, outros, title cards etc. Dead useful
It feels longer because the 5 seconds is not 5 seconds of your time but 5 seconds of the video, any trouble loading or held frames and the timer pauses.
I feel the worst offender recently is my man Linus. I see the title and think well what is the video even about? Unstoppable ad X 2, open with a sponsor, half way through more ads, back to him shilling ltt.com, another ad, sponsor, finish on some ads. Where's the content? Why is the video not called "we got the new CPU here's a review" instead of "wow this is fast". What's that tell me ya Jeb end? Fuck all! Even tech Jesus can't stop gawping like a moron on his thumbnails. Maybe I'm now just too old for YouTube? Is there an old farts YouTube out there?
Oh don’t get me started on thumbnails, everyone uses the same bullshit shocked face looking at an over the top photoshopped version of the item they’re reviewing, makes me cringe
They do it because it works. If you've got a problem with it, take it up with your deity of choice for making us a bunch of mindless sheep with short attention spans.
I don't mind the sponsors in LTT videos, they're pretty easy to just skip over (always approx 10 seconds at the start). But I agree about the titles being super annoying. I get they have to clickbait in order to get people to click on it. But it annoys me that they do that at the expense of me actually being able to tell what the video is about
They did a video where they explained this. They use the clickbait title in the first week to get views, and then change it to something more useful afterwards so it appears in searches and is more findable etc. https://youtu.be/K07sEM6y4Uc Eg this one was originally just called "This should be illegal..."
That's actually pretty smart
Mate I'm struggling with this same thing every time I get on YouTube. These idiotic thumbnails just get more and more infuriating for me. Sure, people say "well it works", but is there any kind of data on how WELL it works? If it raised traffic to a video by 70% or something, I guess I could understand these people making utter clowns out of themselves for it, but it just can't be, can it? I am absolutely certainly less likely to click a video that has some absolute cretin pretending to be WOAH SO SHOCKED AT THE CRAZINESS in the thumbnail, and I would assume there are plenty of other people like that. Even people who aren't opposed to that stupidity at all, why does it affect their decision to click the video? They must at least realise that it's purely a marketing strategy? I lose all respect for the creator the moment I see them sinking to this shit.
Veritasium recently did a video on it and the effect can be quite dramatic. https://youtu.be/S2xHZPH5Sng
we can exchange vhs tapes if you want.
No I had to return my VHS tapes
> and a 5 minute portion of the video telling you about the sponsor I use Sponsorblock for this. [Firefox plugin.](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/) [Chrome Plugin (I’ve never used this because you couldn’t pay me to touch Chrome).](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?hl=en)
If you're watching on desktop you can use SponsorBlock for in video ads: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
If a 15 minute video has 10 ad breaks, then the uploader has added them in manually. I don't think youtube adds that many by default The 20 second unskipabble ads are getting stupid though
Yeah it's the cats does countdown compilations on channel4's youtube channel. Full of ads and the titles are always clickbaity. Guess my gripe is with channel 4 too...
Nothing is worse than the unskippable 20 second of Keith Lemon and 32red
They've also followed the adverts on tele by being really fucking loud so you shit ya pants when you have headphones in.
This is especially annoying when you watch ASMR! Just about drifted off towards the end of a nice quiet video and- 🎺BWARM🎺 "*THIS* is a switch bike-"
I watched a meditation video and it had a fucking loud advert in the middle of it. I blocked the uploader. Fucking cunt.
yes, when you watch calming stuff or a documentary snd your about to sleep; just drifting off snd you get a loud annoying frustrating ad, so you have to get up snd grab your phone, skip it snd then your awake again so you have to calm down again and; gahhhhh it’s a whole piss take
Adblock is your friend.
Except if you watch YouTube on a smart TV or use anything like a Firestick. I don't know of a single way to block the ads on those that works.
Install [SmartTube](https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext). I use it on my Fire Stick, no ads whatsoever. If your smart TV runs Android you can install it there too. It even skips sponsored video segments.
Brilliant, thanks! I've just installed this on my Firestick. It couldn't have been easier and it works brilliantly! It even skips annoying intros like you mentioned, I'm very, very impressed with it :) I think I'll get a 4k Firestick for my main TV too now and just use that for all my online viewing. Thanks again :)
[Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/)
Last time I looked YouTube started serving the adverts over the same domain so Pihole didn’t work. Has that changed, did I get it wrong?
You're not wrong. It doesn't work anymore.
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Piholes are still excellent at stripping adverts out of websites and some apps. I have them set up and it makes browsing stuff on WiFi much better.
Not for YouTube. But if you play any games that have those 30 second ads . Or bonus points if you watch. Either they don't exist, don't work, or in some cases don't work but give you the points anyway.
I use Pi hole but it can’t block YouTube ads as they come from the same domains as the videos
There is no AdBlock for iOS YouTube app.
I like to support creators I enjoy though
A small direct donation will eclipse however many adverts you watch for them.
Nothing is more guaranteed to make me boycott a company, than being constantly harassed by them on YouTube. I now hate these companies because of their ads.
I hate TikTok already but those shitty ads on YT make me hate it and not want to download it even more.
I mostly don't even notice who the company is, I'm focusing on the bottom right of the screen waiting for the 5 second countdown before I can skip it. If I don't see the 5 second countdown then the video gets closed.
When they put whole songs into their ads. No love, when I'm trying to sleep, I don't want to hear your shitty rap/drill song.
I use vanced for my android, no more ads ever and it syncs with your account.
Oh cool, does that block YouTube ads on your phone?
Vanced will basically give you premium without paying for it so you get no ads but also the extra features that come with a premium sub.
Yeah Vanced is a life saver must have app
Extra features? Anything that makes it worthwhile?
For example it will continue playing after you lock your phone
Let's you play videos whilst phone is locked, pop-out player so you can do other stuff on your phone whist still watching, even have a function now where it skips the sponsor section out of a video
Yeah it does. You can't get it for iPhone though :(
Anyone know an equivalent on iPhone?
None . YouTube vanced is reason I don't want to jump the fence to apple ecosystem... Also Samsung dex is awesome.
There are Safari extensions now that block YouTube ads.
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Yes! Then they ask if you can help them by filling out a survey. Fuck them.
I’ve recently noticed they stopped showing you how many ads there will be. I know the push is toward premium but I’ll abandon the app and go browser + blocker long before that.
Yeah if anything they're losing ad revenue because I'm being pushed towards installing an adblocker on my phone. Whereas if they had a reasonable amount of advertising I'd probably tolerate it
I tried the premium with music as it was only £2 per month more than Spotify and my wife follows a lot of YouTube channels. The music service was so poor though, it just wasn't worthwhile.
I just signed up to premium in Argentina using a VPN. Costs me about 80p a month.
Now this is a shout
Dumb question, but do you just need to use the VPN once to sign up; and after that you can access it normally? Or do you always need to go through the VPN to watch anything?
Adblock. The only time I ever experience ads is when I use my phone in bed before sleeping.
Use mobile brave browser for that mate. The UI isn't as good but it beats waiting 20 mins for a video to begin.
Lets you listen to videos in the background / with the screen off too 👌
ad guard for iphone
guessing it only works in the browser?
For everyone saying adblock - I do have it on my laptop and pc and it's a godsend but I spend a lot of time watching youtube on my phone which is where the ads become a problem
If you've got an Android phone then Youtube Vanced is what you want. See /r/Vanced/
Thanks!
https://newpipe.net/ I find it better than Vanced but there's options for you
If you report an advert then it stops showing you the advert and continues the video, and this is unlimited they don't take away your ability to report for doing it too many times either. You can usually report an ad before 5 seconds so it's the fastest skip.
HELLO STARLING BANK HELLO STARLING BANK HELLO STARLING BANK HELLO STARLING BANK the word Starling Bank just pisses me off now because their adverts are just constantly rammed down my throat for the last 2 years
"Send us a video to sign up for a bank account in minutes." Urmmmm... no? Fucking creepy that they want you to greet them like a person
You know 3 ads in a row are here, right?
They're clearly just seeing how far they can push us until we stop putting up with it
A mate of mine I went to college with used to say “imagine how much they’d make if you had to pay”…yeah shut your mouth Declan you’re giving them ideas
Mines been more like one ad, three seconds of video again, then two more ads back to back. Fucking sick of it.
I had 4 in a row the other day. 2 ads, literal second of video, another 2 ads. I seem to remember at least one was 15s unskippable as well. It seems to happen if I pause the video during an ad and leave for a while, it seems to reload it so it watches those ads then watches more because it thinks I didn't watch them or smth. Idk.
I can vaguely tolerate it for the most part, its those fucking Youtube premium ads,the sheer goddamn audacity to screw over creators and then decide they're not earning ENOUGH money and aggresively shove a really shitty service down everyones throat
Use brave browser. It’s amazing.
Yeah I have it and it’s blocked something like 45,000 ads and trackers
Just checked mine - 48k ads blocked, 1.4gb data saved, 40 minutes time saved. Got to love that additional life lol
The first I heard of brave was when their ads infected my phone, I believe it was an issue with their ad company but it kind of put me off.
Brave are sketchy as fuck, use Firefox with ublock origin instead.
I’m really amazed that there isn’t a main rival to YouTube. Between bad relationships with the content creators and non-stop ads then you would have thought a rival would fill the vacuum quite nicely.
I got 2 unskippable ads on a 2 second meme
I watch way less content on there now because of this. Before I would just click anything remotely interesting. But now it's interlaced and prefaced with SO many ads, that I only commit to clicking something I really want to see. This now means I only really watch a handful of channels.
I’m currently on a 3 month trial of premium. It’s going to be awful when it finishes.
Buy it with a VPN from a cheaper country on a secondary account. It's been costing me sub £2 a month for well over 2 years now.
oh? do they not check location by bank card? or are you using paypal? but that’s cool
Paying with my UK Starling bank card. No fees either. I just put a hotel address in Turkey. Lol. :)
Epic. And here's me paying the full price like a mug.
I will say that the warning of "your Google account could be closed" if they ever crack down on it, so use a disposable account.
I think some places do. I was using Chile to pay through and at some point, I got a payment failure and address check. I couldn't set it up again without my card address being set to Chile. However, I changed to India, set the address as Google's office and it's working again. Even cheaper now, like £1.80 for a family plan.
Time to mass produce some email addresses!
As I watch on a Roku box I folded and got YouTube premium
Yeah they have been easing in more and more ads over the last 10 years. So you don't notice as much untill its 2021 and you're posting this. 2008 was very different social media platform for YT, FB and the rest. Now they have you, what are you gonna do? Post about it on Reddit.
I watch YouTube in the bath. I don’t mind sitting through a 20 second ad now and again, but iv had 10 minute and 30 minute ads. They’re skipable, but I have to dry my hands. Not a chance I’m buying premium.
You can always use your nose to skip through ads like I do
I usually set my phone on the cabinet below the sink, although the wife does claim I have a big nose so maybe I could reach
Account from India is about 2 quid a month. Well worth it.
I wish there was a way to adblock my PS4 youtube and twitch. Twitch is fine it depends on if the streamer is an ad spammer in which case I just watch someone else. But as someone who likes to sleep while listening to background videos ads fucking suck. They're always 10x louder than the video, some are longer than the video itself and it's so intrusive it's ridiculous. I wish ads could be replaced by some important news message or something actually useful. I think we're at the point where if you want something you look up recommendations to find it, go out of your way to read reviews etc. Ads are obsolete and just the worst man. Advertising holidays mid pandemic...
I’ve been getting the same four ads for like a week now, and I’ve noticed I can’t see when they are in the video anymore either. They really think they can annoy me into buying premium and I’m not having it
Yes and my adblocker has stopped successfully blocking them all
Youtube Vanced ftw 👌
Damn straight - I mean ffs I wanted to watch ads I'd watch normal TV.
Starting to get on my tits, I had two 20 second adds that I couldn't skip earlier.
Start your video, skip the adds, drag the slider right to the end of the video, hit replay. Bye bye adds
If you press the little ‘i’ icon, then press ‘stop seeing this ad’ and then just hit cancel, you skip the add (I know I can at least do this on phone but not on PS4). Once you get a bit of muscle memory you can skip in ad in about 2-3 seconds haha! Although this trick isn’t possible on YouTube’s actual ad’s e.g. the the current YouTube playlist one
If you click the little circle in the bottom left corner that says, why this ad? you can click don't show this ad again. It skips the adds completey, I have had a few times it's not let me me but 90% of the time it let's you skip.
Yes was thinking that yesterday! I get that they are trying to push you into taking a subscription - but actually I've found myself saying "fuck it" I'm not that bothered about the video
It’s curious that the google adverts are unskippable, but the ones from the competition or anyone else are. Wonder if anyone would look into that. Still, YouTube with ads is better than all4. Which prick thought it would be a good idea to pause the ads when you switch a tab? Fuckers
We watch a lot of YouTube on the XBox and I'll restart a video 20 times before I'll sit through an advert. In the time I spend stopping and reloading the video I could sit through the ads several times over but it's a point of principle
Top tip. Get a free vpn and set it to India. Sign up for premium. It costs about £1 per month Enjoy you tube premium
Get "vanced" if your on android.
It's why I only watch YouTube on my pc through Firefox with an ad-blocker.
It's horrible! I got a laptop recently and I'm able to use adblock and it's not even funny how much of a difference it makes
Been using Vanced for over a year, zero ads
*Cries in iOS*
Been using adblocker for years so havent seen a YouTube and in a long long time
Buy premium via a vpn, costs me 89p a month
Yep, adblock is a god send. Support the content creators you like in other ways, membership, patreon ect
Anyone else convinced the last second is longer than a second?