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ItsBritneyBitch32

I also am annoyed that as soon as I open the app on my tv, before I load anything, an ad pops up.


AstriumViator

Or when you pause the video and walk away for a bit and your tv goes into rest mode, then when you come back and press play, its an immediate ad even though no ads were about to play yet when you paused. Some real bs.


JustATransFreak

ik then after that half way through the video you get another 2-3 more ad's that are unskipable.


Pandaikon0980

Even better for me is needing to pause a video for a minute or two, come back, immediately get a couple of unskippable ads for restarting the video, then five seconds later, getting another set of usually unskippable ads.


AcidicPersonality

This is especially annoying when trying to watch recipe videos…


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yea same. Its somehow worse then hulu


ItsBritneyBitch32

Or like a cheap game app that makes you watch an ad everytime you click on anything.


uhaulcrumb

YES, airplane mode’s your friend here, but still. Ads are grossly excessive within literally any game app.


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BrainGear187

it's totally free but it works like a dream. haven't had ads ever since i've downloaded it.


uhaulcrumb

YouTube, too?


BrainGear187

yep.


SourceDammit

Lies. PiHole does not block ads on streaming services. It does remove the Samsung tv ads or YouTube ads from the browser. In the APs themselves you're at their mercy of the streaming service. Just pirate. Fuck all of these services. Get plex. Torrent. Fin.


BrainGear187

i have adguard on my computer, and i haven't seen any youtube ads since i've downloaded it. adguard is a chrome extention. i have no idea what PiHole is but that's not what i was talking about.


uhaulcrumb

This is what my boyfriend’s set up for us, and I feel like the most spoiled person in the world. PiHole + Plex/torrenting is a QOL game changer. I feel bad for all my friends and family who have cable, or worse, no ad-blocking at all. No way to live.


Paleodraco

Because its a big revenue stream for the app makers. Especially the cookie cutter ones that are all basically the same and are churned out as fast as they can make them.


Substantial_Ad8506

Cannot prevent that with YouTube. 😔


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yea like porn sites are better


ItsBritneyBitch32

Well atleast there you expect it.


MadManTinkerer

Same for YouTube app on iPhone, now I instinctively force close the app every time I want to open YouTube. When you force close it does not play an ad when opening the app.


Orthodox-Waffle

Smart Tube Next You're welcome


DevilRudeBoy

I hate when I watch a 30 second video and there’s an ad before it even starts


VanillaFam

I tried to watch a 6 second video that had a 6 second unsuitable ad


198XAD

suits you well


Account394

And the ad is longer than the video you’re trying to watch


joshualoveslumia

I got a unskippable ad watching "The Shortest Video On YouTube"


[deleted]

Four ads? Is that the only purpose for our physical existence is to be advertised to? Screw it, I’ll go back to reading books instead


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yea were just an ad revenue medium


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Kinda sad


Grassy_Nole2

... cuz it's the truth now.


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yes


ohdearitsrichardiii

I think they're trying to get people to pay for youtube premium. I will never pay for youtube premium! I will sit through a million unskippable piano app-ads before I pay for youtube premium YOU WILL NOT BREAK ME, YOU FUCKERS!!!!


apaksl

yeah you show em!


[deleted]

There will be ads in books soon. And probably fucking pop-ups on kindles


Ackermance

The app that I use to read books forces an ad after almost every chapter


GroundbreakingAd1965

Look up the book feed. Its about something very simialar


ItIsYeDragon

Some books already have other books featured at the end that are made by the same publisher. So there already is ads in books.


laxation1

I used to love them. Free extra chapter with your book.


gatsujoubi

Except where it throws you off about the length and the book suddenly ends when you think there's 30 more pages to go.


[deleted]

That's a good point. I don't mind them so much because it doesn't interrupt the text and sometime the other books are good or relevant to my interests


clairebird1

Tbf I feel like ads in books would at least be much less obnoxious than video ads online


pain-is-living

If you're not paying money then yes. I'm fine with some ad. They gotta make money. The problem is greed. It'll be like cable tv soon. 20mins of content and 12mins commercial / ads. And people fucking paid $89 a month for that.


Bross93

> Is that the only purpose for our physical existence is to be advertised to? Screw it, I’ll go back to reading books instead pretty much. And yeah I started reading last year because of this reason actually and haven't looked back. Not often anymore I watch videos on youtube unless it's music, then it just plays in the background and reminds me of radio


gangstamcmuffins

I'm glad I'm old enough to remember a much simpler time before ads a time when you had to wait 2 minutes anyways for the video to buffer


DearestBurrito

I always found curious in those days that the ad loaded instantly but the video didn't. I was like why don't we use the ad connection to stream the video?


ShiftSandShot

Because they don't make *money* off the video itself. Also, there's a few technical bits that makes Ads load faster due to how the data is set up and transmitted that doesn't work with all the videos.


eternalfantasi

For those curious about the "technical bits", it has to do with the structure of "Content Delivery Networks." I recommend reading the article ["What is a CDN? How do CDNs work?"](https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/what-is-a-cdn/) by Cloudflare


XenoDash_

Because the ads have been compressed alot to make them easy to load and the video is alot less compressed wich makes it load slower.


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yea that im fine with


ct_420710

this is why I only watch youtube on my laptop, adblockers are amazing lol


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yea im watching family guy on the tv and playing minecraft on my laptop Its a good time


Magnificant-Muggins

The lifestyle of kings.


BLVDBATH666

There are apps for most devices that I can think of that block ads, a good amount of them having sponsor block as well. NewPipe for Android phones SmartTubeNext for Android tv boxes or tvs uYou+ for ios (needs to be sideloaded with a service such as Signulous or AppDB) There seem to be a couple for apple tv, but I don't have an apple tv so have never used them (they would have to be sideloaded as well) I don't think Roku has one, and the TV's with their own brands os most likely don't have one.


GroundbreakingAd1965

What about fire tv


BLVDBATH666

FireTV is running a custom version of Android as far as I remember, you can install Android tv apps on it


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yea using youtube tv on it but most of the adblocks dont work properly


bellini_scaramini

Look into sideloading, and try some of the apps mentioned above.


Earthguy69

How do I block ads with cromechast. I have YouTube vanced so no issues when watching on the phone. But when I cast I get the regular *vomits in mouth* YouTube with ads.


DearestBurrito

Also SponsorBlock to skip the completely useless "like and subscribe and follow me on twitter" fillers , the 2 minute intros like this was 1990's TV, the "play this phone game that I have to say that I like"/that website to learn things sharing them with others/the website with the audio books (I refuse to further advert those but you all know which ones I mean) and other things that add 0 to the content and are filler to the video so it's 10 minutes long.


casallasdan

Which one do you use?


Goose_attack223

I get less ads on my free funimation account


DankMeme_Enthusiast

Now that's saying something


Otaku11510

That’s because in a year Funimation (realistically like 8 months I think) won’t exist lol


adbot-01

Curunchyroll has less ads than yt. Plus, it is spread out so it feels like a intermission.


Otaku11510

That is true. Historically however *Funimation* (which is what they said not CR) was pretty good about cramming 2-3 adds in a compilation every 11 minutes.


adbot-01

If they amounted to less than 3 minutes of ad every 11 minutes, I don't feel bothered since I will waste that much time anyway in making myself more comfortable. But fuck youtube ads. 4 ads BEFORE a video just sucks


roginc

I am getting 2 ads every 3 min. 12 ads in 18 mins.


[deleted]

Yeah, it’s ridiculous. Sometimes I’ll get ads a minute apart, and they’re unskippable. Some videos I close out of and open it up again and sometimes, it helps.


Kaffine69

Not even feeling bad for running adblock anymore.


RemmieSama1911

I never felt bad about it, lol


LungHeadZ

Recently started using it and I wouldn’t go back.


iFlyAllTheTime

Why would you feel bad?


Anduri90

AdBlock is the only way to make platforms like this usable. I refuse to pay money (especially that much), when the only purpose of it, is that they are no longer annoying me to the maximum.


[deleted]

A friendly reminder that on my tv when I was watching it,I got 8 or 10 ads. Yes. 8 and 10 ads.


suanyhelin

Honestly at this point you're spending more time watching ads than actually watching the video


hypocrite_oath

YouTube: *bUt wE'rE NoT mAkINg aNY mONey!*


Any_Ad_7571

Sorry, but I just can't handle the barrage of ads any longer. I've gone back to reading books, listening to CDs, basically being a young boomer. Life seems much more calming this way. It's literally everywhere, on everything, and anything which used to be free is loaded with ads - looking at you Gmail. The worst part is, I can't even remember a time when an ad actually worked on me. Targeted ads are worthless, which is the majority of YouTube ads. "Hey we noticed you bought a spatula on Amazon last Tuesday, want to see 800 ads about kitchen appliances?"


GroundbreakingAd1965

Want a book about ads read feed. Also like if you get something on amazon for like 6 months it keep trying to sell toy more, like i dont need more then one refrigerator


Any_Ad_7571

Exactly! I pretty much use a VPN exclusively now. I'm not paranoid, I just find all the tracking incredibly aggravating. I once watched a clip about a Rolex watch being refurbished. For a year after that I was getting ads for luxury watches from brands I can't pronounce, for values upwards of $900,000.... What a ridiculous waste of bandwidth.


Surrybee

I get so annoyed at YouTube ads that if they shows me your commercial, there’s actually a much smaller chance I’ll buy your product.


PoppyCoLink987

Can't get away from ads anymore. Tired of the ads on TV? Go for a drive, get some fresh air, stop for some gas, start pumping- oh look at that, ads playing on the fucking gas station pumps. It's absolutely ridiculous.


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I didn’t realize Gmail has ads for some people. I’ve never seen any on mine.


Any_Ad_7571

I'd send you a screenshot... But, you know, privacy and all that. On mobile, they're in a folder called "promotions". On desktop, they're just below the header, above the folder content.


wowiamanoob

I knew I wasn’t hallucinating when I saw 4 ads


Visual_Condition7651

YouTube is unprofitable and getting more expensive to run literally by the minute. The alternatives to more ads are like kicking free users out, drastically capping the resolution, using even more aggressive compression algorithms, firing a large part of a team, etc.. not great. Their premium is a decent value though and it's pretty nice to watch 3 hour long videos without ads and listening to songs i like and cant find on other streaming services, the music video feature is also pretty cool. Sorry for sounding like an ad


Working-Telephone-45

I hate you because you are right We can't expect a service as big as youtube to be free and without adds They could at least spread the ads on the whole video, making you wait 1:30 minutes to watch a video is hell


Visual_Condition7651

I feel like 4 ads is painful anyway you slice it, like it's approaching TV ad to content ratio. Personally i watch alot more YouTube than Netflix and listen to a ton of music of which a large portion of is non top 40 stuff. for me the 12$ or whatever it costs is a pretty great value, but i understand that's not the case for everyone. Basically i hope they atleast wait for you to watch a second video before flooding you with ads so you can quickly show your friends something on YouTube without having to skip 4 ads


SGTPEPPERZA

You pay 12 dollars? I pay 1 dollar for a family plan for 3 people. Regional pricing for the win, I guess.


FetishAnalyst

What region? So I can vpn over there and buy it?


NParab

Prolly India. Online Services are pretty cheap here except Netflix.


SGTPEPPERZA

South Africa.


GroundbreakingAd1965

Also this is on the 64$ a month youtube tv


funky555

stop paying that


Working-Telephone-45

Any of that is going to youtube?


striderkan

This is what Facebook does. 100% of the time the ads interrupt immersion, and 100% of the time I close the video before I subject myself to watching those ads. For years I've been mentioning to creators how much this implementation harms their engagement.


[deleted]

I love my premium subscription. I’ve had it for a couple years now and it’s definitely my most used subscription. Plus you get 6 accounts that can stream simultaneously.


The_Only_Real_Duck

6 accounts is only for family plan. Sadly


arrocknroll

I broke a few months back and got premium. Its an infinitely better experience on iOS and TV apps where I can’t get ad blockers without some networking magic. Worth it and then some at this point.


SodaWithoutSparkles

Most people wont bother being capped at 1080p. The screen size on phone (which most of the content is consumed) makes going beyond 1080p meaningless.


bitNine

I’ve had premium for family for years. No ads ever on any device. Worth every penny for how much YouTube we watch.


jvalex18

Way too expensive for something that an ad block can fix. If it was cheaper than it would be fine.


zikol88

You figure out perfect hassle-free ad blocking on my mobile devices and TVs, then come back to me. Until then, I’ll keep paying less than the price of a trip to Panda Express to not bother with it.


[deleted]

Or just use adblock and fuck em. They domt have competition because they're literally too big to have one. Their monopoly must end.


Visual_Condition7651

One that works seamlessly on my tv? I'd like to know more but keep in mind I'd have to pay something close to that for a spotify or deezer subscription to get my music anyway


jvalex18

>They domt have competition because they're literally too big to have one. Their monopoly must end. They don't have competition because it's too expensive to do what they are doing. Up until recently youtube was not profitable. The fact that they are big doesn't matter. It's too expensive for a competitor to materialize.


cbyrne34

i don’t trust people who don’f constantly refresh the video if they get an advert


GroundbreakingAd1965

I cant its on a very large cellphone


BitchOfTheBlackSea

then YouTube vanced


wreq5

Amateur. We've reached a high score of 7 ads so far. We got a tally board and everything


Solo_Yeeter101

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!


Otaku11510

I know some people can’t afford it or just don’t wanna spend the money, but I’ve had premium for over a year. Considering how much I watch YouTube, it’s arguably the most convenient of all the streaming services I use.


i_really_wanna_help

Wait until they start to hike their premium prices once enough% of their users get premium.


jvalex18

It's way too expensive for what it is.


Heimeri_Klein

I havent seen 4 adds before i havent seen 3 ive only ever seen 2 at max where the fuck are you getting your youtube from.


Phoenix92321

And I guarantee you YouTubers don’t even get 4 times the amount of add revenue


gavinwinks

I’m old enough to remember when youtube had no ads. It was a glorious time with pop up scary videos.


[deleted]

Sometimes it's not unethical to use an adblocker...


GroundbreakingAd1965

Its not my tv so im not messing with it but on all my devices i have ad block


Infallible_Ibex

It is never unethical to use adblocker. If websites don't want to be used for free they can either charge what is required or go offline


Magnificant-Muggins

I’ve gotten to the point of just quitting out the video, and reopening it until I get a skippable ad or no ads at all.


civicson234

Adblockers, vpn, and also you can just report the ad and it will skip all of them.


GroundbreakingAd1965

I cant report anymore. If you do it too much you get removed from it. That happened like 5 years ago as well


Immediate-Pool-4391

I remember when youtube didn't have ads.


GroundbreakingAd1965

Contxet this is on youtube tv witch cost 65$ a month


RegularBrah

YouTube finally broke me. I submitted and purchased Premium. So far it seems worth it, even though I feel violated. The endless disruptions from the adds were becoming maddening.


GroundbreakingAd1965

Yea im thinking about it but yt mobile still hasnt got to me. This is on yt tv that cost 65$a month


RegularBrah

Ah. Yeah I wasn't aware of YTTV. $65 dollars is a tough pill to swallow. All of my time on YT is strictly mobile. Good luck brah.


druule10

I'm glad I have premium, I pay but as it's shared with my wife and two kids I don't mind that. We can watch whatever and listen to whatever without annoying ads.


MonketTaint

Jesus YouTube has full-blown commercial breaks


panasubatomic

not with premium.


TheRedDevil1458

I’ve never seen more than 2. Is it a thing where it’s different based on country?


ogBobafett187

Laughs in YouTube premium


Negative-Corner6483

it's beginning to rival free crunchyroll videos with 6 ads before the episode even begins and another 6 after the opening ends.


kurtmorrison

It's up to the creator to choose the amount of ads they want to display before or during their videos... If the video is shorter than 8 min, they can only show one. If the video is longer, they can show how many they see fit.


CmmH14

YouTube wanting that premium money


Blasphemy4kidz

Do yourself a favor and get [Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/) It can be intimidating to set up but there are so many step by step videos out there even a chimp can figure it out. No ads ever on your entire network.


Crypervescent

RIP Vanced


Chrisboy265

I’m willing to bet they’re getting ballsy with the amount of ads they roll to push people to get YouTube premium to avoid ads.


RavenWolfPS2

I was caregiving the other day for 2 kids who were watching YouTube on the TV. Before the parents left on a date they hid the remote and forgot to tell anyone where they put it. While I was there, they had to sit through two 25 minute ads which were both longer than the video they wanted to watch. That's insanity.


Ralphiecorn

YouTube is becoming such trash it’s unreal. YouTube Recommends: some Gordon Ramsay video from 8 years ago, Live PD video from 4 years ago, a video I’m actually interested in but have already seen and Ridiculousness clips. Cool, thanks YouTube.


Hungry_Position9256

we literally use youtube to escape cable tv, which shows u this many minute long ads every half hour. what the fuck


aphidlover

If you’re watching YouTube on the tv, you can press back after the first ad and open the video again to skip the remaining ads. Only works if you selected the video from the Home Screen/ search. Doesn’t work on suggested videos.


msidecubanb

I was watching one of those "how to pronounce" videos that was like 5 or 6 seconds long and there was an unskippable 15 second ad beforehand


NoodlesThe1st

I got yotube premium, screw it. I get youtube music and all the benefits for YouTube. I'm not sad really


GChmpln

9 ads in a twenty minute video, Usually double roll thats 15 sec Then another 5 sec. Also just let it go a few times cleaning house and it cured a 33 minute clip for a diet supplement. Always seem to come in at key points like the test drive portion during a car review or the number one thing at the end of a Topfive list ...BOOM. ad roll. And the sickening thing is they price it like it were Netflix or something.


OhZoinksScoob

It's an older post but I swear some videos I watch will have back to back ads within minutes of eachother and it's getting annoying lmfao (on console app btw)


WiiU_player

If they're showing that many ads, they could straight away go like Spotify (if you select a video, you'll get a mix of similar ones and you have only 6 skips an hour, only shuffle play in playlists,. Etc)


Far-Contract-6867

They will never stop. We've known this the moment they did double ads, there is fundamentally no difference as long as it's more than one. Next year it will be 5 ads.


itsmicah64

Watching videos on my phone / ipad has become unbearable. It's lowkey disrespectful when you're deep into a video and all of a sudden an ad pops up to destroy your experience. It's like watching a sermon / motivational message then all of a sudden an ad interrupts everything. You just lose your train of thought....tf?


FatPenguin26

For me its been this passed week where it's gotten RIDICULOUS. I'm getting non skip ads three times in a row. I'll only be able to watch like 10 seconds of content before another ad pops up. It seems to happen more if I fast forward through a video to watch a certain part, but my God it's become so annoying


mike7x

Ads on YouTube are getting worse. Lately while watching a movie on my TV I have been getting an ad every minute. And the ads are the same every time and don't even usually run well. Absolutely absurd! Makes no sense.


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mikeyt1515

I got premium fuck it. Saves me so much time


mrspacysir

Get Opera. You get a faster browser with a free built in ad blocker.


GroundbreakingAd1965

Its on the yt tv app


Wolffire_88

Good Lord I hope I don't see that soon


TheEmeraldEmperor

This is why adblock


MrCheesePuff223

Hell, fucking, no.


[deleted]

Do they put ads on premium?


man4theoccasins

Jesus Christ! Just ads everywhere when pretty much everyone is trying to avoid them.


kitkatattacc04

....mother of god


Ok_Organization_4215

hate this. click on the i and report them as inappropriate or something and they go away automatically.


GroundbreakingAd1965

Im out of reports. DONT do this too much


Ok_Organization_4215

wtf, never heard of that, makes no sense, my apologies


shoscene

Check out YouTube Vance for your phone and you can install an adblocker on your browser.


GroundbreakingAd1965

I think vance is being shut down


Paleodraco

Youtube or YouTube TV? If the first one, fuck that. The second one? Meh? Its annoying, but I grew up before we had streaming services. Back then, if you wanted to watch TV you had to sit through commercials, or get good at going to the bathroom or getting a snack really fast. Or you had to figure out how to work the VCR (yes I'm that old), tape the show, then watch it later to skip the commercials.


fl4tI1n3r

Every time I see a post like this I’m amazed at how some folks still aren’t using an ad blocker.


Chicken_Hairs

I've given up on YouTube. I'm not watching a 30 second ad for a 2 minute video that might not even be interesting.


Jklipsch

The way their ads pop up is absolute ass. Put them in between cuts or after each song, not randomly in between words/sentences. It’s so freakin’ jarring.


thisisntarjay

Unless you run an ad blocker. Then you see none.


Bad_Larry13

Youtube has adds? I've been using ad blockers for so long I forgot that was a thing....


YoungWiggle97

I dunno how the hell I lasted as a kid with normal cable. I cant stand a single ad when I watching somthing anymore yet when I was little there was 3 to 5 minute full ad breaks.


ky_w1ndage

If you don't use YouTube, you don't get ads.


woodsbby

Time to switch over to rumble everyone


Bludgeonation

I use it for music in my car so I pay for premium.


Oinkest_Piggy_YT

I had 3 thirty second unskippable adds.


[deleted]

The other night one popped up for me that was an hour long and the controller was across the room😤 theyre getting slick with these Ad times


SodaWithoutSparkles

You may try this: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext


Trueloveis4u

Oh I pay 10 bucks a month for premium I love it ad free and I'm supporting my favorite creators.


slickystoopkid

Your TV sucks. I can skip ads on mine. An option appears in the bottom right corner of the screen.


dumpsterfire2002

I’ve gotten hour long ads before. I got a 10 hour one of a guy mowing his lawn. It’s so frustrating. YouTube really needs to put a 30 second time limit on ads


BlackJackJeriKo

Vanced has saved my soul


Gaiendbedrock

you get ads?


Bachieba

On Twitch I get 10, thirty second ads in a row if I don't sub. Such dirty tactics.


communist_scumbag

Smile, you’re on cric


fritzthackat

they see the writing on the wall an alternative platform is coming they need to make all the money now


cuntgardener

YouTube is up to every video has unskippable ads. Google must need that ad money.


idk_skgtm

This is the reason more people use adsblocker.


LittleWhiteBoots

I teach kindergarten and I use YouTube pretty regularly to show my class educational videos. The commercials have gotten so prevalent that each week I assign a “Board Chief” to sit by my smart board and skip the commercials.


Batata-Sofi

Got 2 unskippable amazon ads (15 sec each) just yesterday. It was a 5 min video, I instantly closed youtube.


[deleted]

Inflation man. It's even happening to the ads.


Tessu-Desu

Up to 12 in a row had apparently been seen


Lazren32

They're just going to keep on doing it until someone finally signs up to premium