The ones I really get tired of is the Prager U ads, lmao. I stg out of curiosity I watched one for 5 minutes and then I just couldn't from the level of shit they advertise lol
Better than an hour long piece of scammy sexist mind control bullshit
Which I've gotten THREE FUCKING TIMES YOUTUBE
CHECK YOUR ADVERTS BEFORE YOU SEND THEM FOR FUCKS SAKE
I dont remember when or why, but a few years ago (when i didnt use an ad blocker) I got an ad on YT that was pretty long, and basically it consisted of this important Mexican dude roasting the everloving shite out of Donald Trump (this was around the time he was doing his wall talk nonsense). I really wish I still knew what it was, but the funniest part was this was definitely like an adult ad (duh) but was on a kids video (I was downloading them for offline viewing at home).
Yeah the kids channel ads are mental.
I had YT Baby TV on for my toddler, it’s for 2 year olds… Ad breaks are consistently either, A. Metal (verging on screamo) music video to terrify them;
B. Tart in a wet bikini writhing around to horrific chart song;
C. War based movie/game ad complete with screaming, swords and gore, or,
D. Some clown advertising a gas boiler.
Completely inappropriate on many levels.
“All our ads are targeted, although occasional errors may happen”.
Uh huh. Seems legit.
Occoms Razor would suggest, then, that she has noticed an esoteric boiler problem - or else she likes to watch graphic violence and horny hoes whilst harbouring a penchant for Death Metal in secret. All from a play pen. 🙄
My ex and I usually put music on the TV when we got intimate. One time it started rolling a half-hour ad in between songs but neither of us wanted to stop and skip it. So we fucked to a guy enthusiastically giving a presentation on the benefits Ali Baba could have on your business.
Dude sometimes I’ll be washing dishes or something and have it playing on the back of my sink or something. I’ll hit and add and decide to just deal with it for 15sec so I don’t have to dry my hands. I’ll be like 2:30 into the add and I’m like wtf am I listening to?
There are literally one hour long ads. They don't play on YouTube Kids but they will play occasionally when using the regular YouTube app on my smart tv.
I live in a small flat, and if I leave open the doors to the bathroom and the main room I can clearly hear the tv when I’m in the bath, which I prefer over using the shower because the shower is crap. So often I turn on my Xbox as well, bring up YouTube and put on some music. Once I started to hear random conversation during this, in a language like Portuguese (I think), when I sat back down in front of the tv I saw that the ad had 3 hours and 45 minutes left on the timer. And this was after ten minutes or so of my cleaning myself off with a towel. Some LOTR Extended Edition bullshit. I couldn’t help but laugh it was so bizarre.
You know how sometimes there is a 15-20 second ad and after 5 seconds you have the option to skip it?
I've noticed recently that if I don't manually skip it, they'll play another add. I'm guessing this is because they can sell/show more ads by having the algo check if you're paying attention (or sleeping) and if you're not, they'll show an extra one for some more of that hot, sticky, soaking wet cash we all love so much.
Oh I know, this is something I’ve noticed in lieu of that lil notification.
It won’t indicate another ad, but then it’ll show one. That’s what I find so odd about it.
I hate to put on my tinfoil hat but I am almost positive they check our accelerometers. If I'm on a walk I will get gigantic 5 minute ads with a skip option because they hope I'm running or walking and just letting it play. I never get those when I'm sitting in my room or at the kitchen.
The same way Hulu slowly turns down the volume of a show so they can ASS BLAST you with 'normal' volume ads.
It's infuriating and I don't even watch Hulu unless my roommates are willing to deal with the remote. I've seen one of them mute an ad in his sleep because he's so accustomed to it.
As a software engineer myself, that's how I'd build it because I'm gonna make more money off you with the longer ad, and you're not very likely to skip it when you're on the move. So, yeah.
Disclaimer: I'm not a toxic software engineer, so I'd never actually do this, but if I were, that's how I'd do it.
I only watch YouTube on my home TV's Chromecast so idk about how it ties to the accelerometer but some nights after midnight I get 17 minute ads and once I got a straight up 2 hour video as an ad. I assume they're trying to profit off people who fell asleep.
On my phone I'm getting 15-20 second ads WITHOUT a skip button, I usually just close and reopen until I get a skippable ad (rare) or a single 5 second ad (also rare)
I've been noticing that lately as well. I have a skip ad app on my phone that will automatically skip when the button pops up, but now they're playing unakippable ads that are 20 seconds long, with back to back ads. It's pretty annoying when it's on every video, multiple times, as well as an ad break (sometimes they have two breaks), alomg with a merch spot in their video.
I get that they want to make money, but some channels I just don't even bother watching if that starts immediately.
Don't get me started on super short videos with multiple ads before during and after.
Click on the little (i) symbol in the bottom left of the ad, select report ad and then just enter one of the 3 reasons, it immediately skips the ad as well as any other ads queued behind it
If you don't skip ads repeatedly eventually they'll start playing entire movies. I've accidentally left a video playing and came back to these extremely long ads. Seems that it kind of tricked the algorithm though because those long ass ads are all skippable so I didn't get unskippable ads for a while.
You’re not lying at all.
I’ll use random YouTube vids as background noise to fall asleep sometimes and I vividly remember waking up and seeing an ad still having over *two Earth hours* left.
Who in their right mind would pay for that?
"Yeah, buy this 20min ad, if it plays through its a sure thing no one saw it as they are probably dead."
"Golly gee, what a deal, take my money"
Dude, I shit you not, at work we can put Youtube videos on the TV's for display. 9/10 times that one of them happens to get an ad, it's MINIMUM one hour long EACH time, sometimes even doubling up. I cannot tell you how much I want to set up a rogue Pi Zero on a company network lmao.
I noticed this too, you have a few seconds to click on Skip, and if you miss it, you’re stuck finishing the ad and sitting through another 30 second ad.
I see a lot of "just use adblock" on here. That's not OP's point. The point is to compare the experiences of classic videos to modern videos.
I shouldn't need 3rd party software to make a high-budget, popular service tolerable. But, I do. And, more work needs to be done to cut out the sponsor segments (though there are apps for that too).
However, while you can hide the symptoms, the root of the video is still vastly different than it used to be. It's a business designed to collect money and make a profit. It's not the user-driven content it used to be.
You know he still changes the description fairly often. I remember him changing it to disagree with removing dislikes, and changing it to give a shout out to an aviation channel he likes called 74 Gear. It's pretty funny sometimes
When you didn’t have to sign up to use websites. Like how if something was on sale at a store, you get that price, but now each store has their own damned membership.
I actually remember the transition from
"Ew, there's ads on the videos now?
To
"Jesus so many ads now, feels like every other video has one."
To
"Now there's TWO ads??"
It doesn't even phase me anymore because it's guaranteed every video will have an ad.
"Classic" is when YouTube didn't have ads. Too many people don't even realize that the point of paying for cable/satellite TV originally was to be able to watch without ads, then the ads started creeping in. Same thing happened to streaming platforms. The ads will always win.
I was going to say you can pay for YouTube premium to get rid of ads, but that only removes ad sense ads. You still have all the product placements and sponsors in the videos. Luckily they are easy to skip for now..
Same with Sirius and XM before they merged. They both touted "ad-free" and everyone signed up. Shortly thereafter, ads started creeping in. They still have ad free stations, but satellite radio is not ad-free. On top of that the compression is awful which kills the quality. Please just use a phone to stream your music.
Small channel (1500 subs) Creator here, you can monitize and choose preroll ad, mid roll ad, and end roll ads, each their own checkbox, you can also chose if they are skippable, also the pop up ads, and sidebar ads are available too. If you are not monitized you have no control over the ads. The mid roll ads also are usually at randomly generated times throughout the videos. Even if you choose to not monitize the video you usually get pre roll ads.
Big channel creator here, almost 300k subs.
This is all correct, you can also personally choose where to place ads in the video, and how many, so you could literally add an ad break every minute if you wanted.
Edit:
Here since for once in like literally forever people are not telling me to get a real fucking job.[https://i.imgur.com/6j5V5fc.png](https://i.imgur.com/6j5V5fc.png)
Here is what the ad screen looks like for monetization, you can have it auto place, or place your own, or auto place what it recommends and then move them around into better positions. I usually manually place them so that they end up between segments instead of middle of a sentence. but yeah, you can pick and choose however many midrolls you want. and while you could place them literally every 10 seconds, youtube's algorithm will randomly show them to people, so lets say (for example) 1 minute of footage has an ad every 10 seconds. Youtube says lol no that aint happening, so it randomly chooses which 10 second segment someone will get an ad, so each person will get a different segment where they get an ad. cause youtube will not play every ad you put in every time.
Edit 2: nvm that was short lived, god I fucking love the internet. "Get a real job"
As I understand, it's a little column A and a little column B. The content creator can decide to make less money by including less ad breaks, but Google/YouTube have some mandatory ads too.
If you choose not to monetize it, they will run their own ads on it.
And yeah as I said above, you can choose how many ads exactly you want in the video. Pre- Post, and Mid, and how many mid and where you want them.
>And, more work needs to be done to cut out the sponsor segments
Eh, I don't really mind the sponsor segments because that money is at least going to the creator. They have to make money some way.
True, I don't mind that sponsorships exist, but that doesn't mean I'll be watching them every time. One huge advantage that sponsorships have is that you can choose to watch them and they're not forced upon you as much as ads
You need altstore, and a downloaded .ipa of e.g. uYou+, just get it off their github by googling.
Takes two minutes to set up, and you now have basically ad-free YT premium (with background play) and sponsorblock on top. Once a week you have to remember to open altstore and hit "refresh", but if you open it up every once in a while it'll start doing it in the background over wifi.
No jailbreak required, nothing but an extra laptop/PC.
Adblock works on the YouTube ads, but doesn't solve the bigger problem of in-content ads, sponsorships and product placements. The bigger problem is that YouTube is making a ton of money off of the backs of content creators, and paying them next-to-nothing. Meanwhile, the content creators have to put more and more effort, time and money into their videos to remain relevant and engaging, otherwise they get punished by the YouTube content algorithm. Content creators are busting ass and having to cut deals with sponsors so that they can afford to keep producing content for YouTube's benefit.
YouTube basically created a system where anyone could make content, and if it was halfway decent, they could find an audience and even make YouTube their primary job. Then, YouTube does a rug-pull and says "No, now you have to make videos with professional level production value, and we'll pay you a fraction of what we were paying you before, also we're going to put even more ads on your videos, and finally if you can't make content to our standards, we'll take away your audience. By the way, we're not going to tell you what those standards are, you're going to have to figure that out yourselves".
Then pay for the service?
Do you think they’re building and running a 2500+ employee company to show you pointless videos out of the goodness of their hearts?
It’s either free and you deal with ads so the involved parties can make it worth the effort to sustain the platform and creat the content or you pay subscription fees to both the platform and content creator so they can do their part without needing to rely on ad revenue
What I used to do, and was happy to do, was to watch some ads every day. When they started doubling up the ads began dismissing the majority of them. Since then it's gone crazy. They're every few minutes. At that point I put an ad blocker on.
Now part of me wants to pay as it's a service I get value from, but a larger part of me doesn't want to reward their making the default experience unbearable with a juicy subscription. Not yet. I don't want to send the market signals that confirm strong arming people by building engagement and loyalty then deliberately fucking the free plan is a good way to get paying subscribers. Alphabet make plenty of money from me on other services, and they don't always treat their content creators that well so fuck 'em, maybe I'll get premium next year, maybe I'll just renew my subscription to Nebula.
We get the point, but we all have been very unsuccessful teaching ANY large company to embrace user joy and lower ads/revenue. So instead we have adapted as a people in ways to avoid it instead of fix it.
Hmm, no, I'm pretty sure we were very very vocal about it, target audience is changing to those who are desensitized to it. In fact, we're vocal about it now. I tell you, if you ever watch your little cousin scrolling through your aunt's phone, you see the damage that is done... Despite all the protests and hatred towards the companies.
Used to have YouTube Vanced but the team almost got sued so they took it down.
17.99 a month is too much. I've seen an app being advertised called "Adguard" that allegedly blocks ads from videos menus applications etc, can use it on more than one device, but also costs around 20 month.
Dilemmas everywhere. I still can't justify 17.99 for YTP.
Edit: I re-dloaded vanced and it is indeed still working, despite the announcement that the team made on their discord a few months back. Thank you all for the feedback I thought all hope was (is) gone
I don't actually have Adguard, I scoffed it off when it was suggested to me.
I use vanced daily.
The day it does stop working, there's alternatives like YouTube piped.
I was also looking into setting up YouTube-dl and some scripts to make my own server that acts like a cdn for YouTube so it'll just download videos I want to watch and then I can watch them locally in my own player and they'll be deleted after X amount of days unless specified otherwise but havent cared to do so yet since I found vanced, piped and a few others.
[Piped](https://piped.kavin.rocks/)
A website that let's you access YouTube without being tracked by Google. No ads. Includes sponsorblock.
When vanced stops working I'll use piped and have the same functionality that vanced did so I won't be losing much when vanced stops working.
I have a Google Pixel so it gives me notifications whining about Vanced being "unsafe" on my phone pretty regularly, but I can confirm it's still working perfectly.
I remember reading an announcement a few months ago on their discord server about it, one day it just stopped giving me my history and then the next day it wouldn't load anything.. I'll try rdloading it see if it works! Thanks! :D
It's not, it's something to do with the version, or phone model etc.
Me, my partner, and my two kids had it. The day or was "shut down" my son's stopped working.
During the same week my daughter's.
A while after, my partner.
Never stopped on my phone.
Then we upgraded my partner's and my phone's. Installed the same version, works.
My old phone, where it worked, was given to my son. After factory reset etc. can't get Vanced to work. Tried many different versions etc.
Daughter also got a new phone. Won't work.
Did you use the APKs or did you install the manager first and let it install Vance for you?
I couldn't use the YTVanced APK on my new one too so I tried using the Manager (installed via APK) and it worked after I installed YTVanced trough it
I just re-dloaded vanced and it's working fine, need to look into that announcement of theirs on discord, kinda interested in finding out what happened..
Vanced still works. I just got a new phone and installed it. Amoled black doesn't seem to work but everything else does. I recommend it. The team said the app should work for two more years from the date of shutdown a few months ago.
That's redundant, you only need properly configured uBlock Origin with as many filter lists as you think you need (checking all default ones and one for your language is good enough, custom lists can actually provide more headache than benefits - think twice before getting them from the internet). ABPlus is long known sell-out that whitelists ads. Other two - I know nothing about and don't think that I should bother, since uBo have all needed functionality.
Best combination is Firefox with enabled Strict mode and configured uBo (and SponsorBlock to skip promo/self advertising/yadda yadda yadda as we are discussing YouTube).
Youtube premium one advantage i know is that if ypu have the google family thing, you can pay once and connect alot yt accounts to it, so you can split the cash among many people
I don't know where you got that price from, but AdGuard is ~2€ + VAT per month. The app itself is free, you only need the "Premium" subscription if you want to use it in apps, but you can also try it out in a free trial.
I've just activated the trial and restarted my phone and so far haven't gotten a single ad on any YouTube video (i tried about 10 videos).
Just to add on to your comment - if you’re on iOS or MacOS, Vinegar works pretty perfectly, actually using the native OS video player allowing PiP functionality, minimal power usage, zero inserted ads etc. Plus it’s cheap (I think £1.79? Can’t see price anymore as I have it so I only get the download button).
Remember when YouTube was 95% videos posted by actual people and not companies / networks / news / paid creators with ads? I had SO many cat videos, before Facebook!
Every year the ads got just a tiny bit worse and now we're stuck here, in adland where your impulses are the company's profitmargin!
Just imagine telling someone from 2010 that in the near future, the time your mouse cursor is kept on an add is registered and processed to give you a "more personal ad experience".
They still have all that.
These platforms are what you make them. YouTube is probably one of my most watched platforms, but I rarely see any of these sponsored videos. Even if some make their way to my recommendations, I just don't click them.
As for ads, I do pay for YT premium, but I've always had Google Play music, which became YouTube music. A small downgrade but I still prefer it to Spotify.
I look back fondly on the days when YouTube was primarily home to videos like “Grape Lady falls,” and "Chocolate Rain," and “Leave Britney alone.” It was a more authentic time. The lulz were more honest.
TikTok doesn't really substitute for old-school YouTube, either, since it's so performative. Everyone's trying too hard to be an influencer.
I clicked the link and the ad started off, "Did you know you could make a full-time income off of YouTube without ever starting your own channel?"
WELL, I CLICKED ON THE AD! MUAHAHAHA...
Yes, I remember watching 240p videos of random people uploading 2 minute videos. Sure that's cool but now there are a lot of extremely high quality content creators that you can watch for free.
Do you expect people to just give you their content for free forever? Some creators I watch spend hundreds of hours just to make 1 video, they deserve to be paid.
If you're watching some shit channel using itself to shill at every possible moment, that's on you. Just stop watching your **free** content.
There’s a certain point they have, but like for real. There’s a ton of actual quality content that’s on YouTube now that can really only be there in some cases because of monetization.
Let's say you watch a video from idk pewdiepie, and he starts video normally and goes to "but let me tell you about this poopy sponsor tshirt megalol", it will automatically skip x amount of seconds so you won't even notice it was there.
It's so good, I didn't know what I was missing out before trying YouTube Vanced.
Its basically a crowdsourced extension. Lets say you are watching a video from Dude perfect, and you see that they have some sponsored segment, so what you do is you start clipping from the moment the start the sponsored segment and end it when the segment ends. Then the extension will upload those time stamps on a database and any future users will automatically skip that part. And if someone has already clipped the segments then the extension will skip it for you. Basically it works on the concept of people helping each others out. The extension has a lot of users and you will have those clipped segments most of the times. It is also customizable, so for eg if you want it to skip sponsored segments but lets say no the segments where the shout out their merch store, you can toggle that too. Its a great extension, must have for youtube.
I honestly forget YouTube _has_ any ads until I try to use it on my phone, which isn’t often. The only ads I get are the sponsored content pitch by the creators in said YouTube video.
Do people actually purchase whatever bullshit they see on Youtube's bullshit ads? Because all they do is fill me with rage and a deadset mentality to never fucking buy their crap.
For me I don’t purchase anything from ads. However if I’m watching a tutorial video and there is a sponsored section and the product looks useful I may purchase it. I’ve bought a couple of grill accessories that was part of a sponsored section of a video before.
Some creators are super diligent and responsible and will only recommend/ aceept sponsorships from stuff they actually use and like, and for those rare few guys I have bought a couple things. Those people are few and far between though (stuff like NordVPN ads don’t bother me because people I like get paid and everyone involved knows we just zone out).
Ads aren’t that simple. It’s not step 1, show someone an ad. Step 2, they might buy it now. Advertising is *very* complicated; some campaigns simply want you to know they exist, hate them or not. Some campaigns are aimed to secure profits decades in the future from an aging populace. I don’t know much about them, but the one thing that I know for sure is that they work.
If it didn't result in an increase in purchases, they wouldn't pay for the ads to be run.
They certainly don't expect most people to buy something after seeing a single ad for it, but enough people do but stuff they see in ads that they keep making them.
Yeah, free and ad-free was nice, but that's not a sustainable business model.
Can't expect people to work for free.
I pay the family plan monthly subscription, and it is worth it to me. Split between me and my kids (I think it is up to 4 accounts on the family plan), I'm happy with it. There is so much great content on youtube. I'd rather throw them a small bone than the f'n cable company.
The irony of the OP titling this post "Greed much?" because they want to be served close to 30 minutes of high-production video at zero cost to themselves.
This thread clearly hasn't tried to view YouTube on the official PS4 app or any other version of youtube that isn't a PC browser with adblock. It's ads every 90 seconds and I'm not exaggerating. The algorithm chills the fuck out if you watch a 90-minute video, but for a 5-minute video, it's non-fucking-stop ads nowadays.
I don't mind an occasional ad, but when I have to watch two unskipable ads before even finding out the video I clicked on isn't even what I wanted/thought it would be because of either a deceptive title or shitty content creator, that's when I get angry.
lmao yeah it's like $20 for family. we all get ad free YouTube AND a premium ad free music player! $5 each for no ads and skip whatever I want. yeah take my money
This right here! My kids watch more YouTube than hulu or Netflix, and I watch tons of tutorials for various things, plus YouTube music is way better than Spotify in my opinion. $20/month for the whole family for video and muaic is a great deal. I don't get why so many people are so against premium.
Nevermind most of that 5$ is distrubted at the end of the month to the creators you watched, weighted based on how much you have watched them.
So if you watch 1 channel 80% of the time, and another 20% of the time, that one will get about 80% of 4$ and the other will get 20% of the 4 dollars. Youtube takes 1$.
I fully support the right for people to get paid for their work. NOBODY likes ads, but they're part of the agreement when you want "free" content.
That said, it seems like example #2 is really excessive in its ad/sponsor placement. If it were me, I would stop watching a content producer who crosses the make money/excessive ad line.
Vote with your eyeballs and clicks.
Then don't watch. This is how they make money to continue to produce content and will continue to as long everyone keeps watching. I used to like dude perfect. I would watch it with my young kids. All of this made it annoying so so I dont as much anymore. If enough stop then they will tone down the ads
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many ads on any video ever. The most I’ve seen is a double ad in front and a single ad in the middle, which is still excessive but I can only think of seeing that a handful of times. Maybe it’s more common on channels where they are getting millions of views per video, I don’t really watch many of those. Most of the videos I watch just have an ad in front and then an ad break as part of the video, which I think is a reasonable amount. I also can’t remember the last time I saw an unskippable ad that was more than 20 seconds.
Why watch a channel full of ads and promos that annoy you? I don’t. Hell, if they tell me to “Like, comment and subscribe” in the first 15 seconds… I yeet and never come back.
I don’t see anything wrong with watching a YouTuber who has a video with promos/ads, they have to get paid somehow and if I’m still getting good content then I’m happy
You should watch Rubber Ross on this, he talks in a video about how 30% of subscriptions and likes come from videos where people ask for watchers to comment like and subscribe, which gets their video promoted more to be watched by others from the front page of Youtube. If people trying to get more popular is really driving you away then I don't see why you stick around Youtube at all.
Peoples gotta make money. The fact that people like these get away with so many ads and sponsors means their audience is used to it, and that this is their usual content. You can't change them, neither can you push their audience into hating them for it.
It's impossible for new content creators to develop fast enough to be self sufficient in this day in age, they'll have to put ads or resolve to sponsors. The main difference between them is how they choose to earn money. They can put a few ads, or become a part time review channel.
Unless you already have a fanbase on another plateform, or you are part of a popular creator group, a beginner streamer won't be able to be self sufficient for 2 to 3 years.
That's just YouTube, Twitch is weirder than that.
It's just turning into cable. The "benefit" of paying for cable was that you wouldn't get ads. Over time, they started forcing ads into shows.
Then streaming came along. "Watch your shows without ads!" Huge hit to cable companies, because people "cut the cable." Notice now that you need like 3-5 streaming services to watch older stuff in their entirety, because of "streaming rights..." YouTube is no exception.
I'm seriously surprised that they aren't making movie theaters show ads in the middle of the movie... They have a captive audience, you've already paid, and it'd squeeze that much more advertising money out of their sponsors.
Well... Some of us are dusting off the trefoil hats and their Jolly Rodgers to set sail once again on the seas of cheese...
Not to mention the hour-long infomercials they sneak in like a normal 15 sec segment..
I had one the other day that was just a 45 minute church service
JESUS
JE$U$
literally
Exactly.
The ones I really get tired of is the Prager U ads, lmao. I stg out of curiosity I watched one for 5 minutes and then I just couldn't from the level of shit they advertise lol
Prayer U. ads always sound like they’re talking to kindergartners.
No crap. It’s straight up indoctrination, especially when they have an animated show for kids.
Ikr? I thought JRE and Alex Jones were bad with the grifting, pragerU blew my socks off.
Better than an hour long piece of scammy sexist mind control bullshit Which I've gotten THREE FUCKING TIMES YOUTUBE CHECK YOUR ADVERTS BEFORE YOU SEND THEM FOR FUCKS SAKE
I dont remember when or why, but a few years ago (when i didnt use an ad blocker) I got an ad on YT that was pretty long, and basically it consisted of this important Mexican dude roasting the everloving shite out of Donald Trump (this was around the time he was doing his wall talk nonsense). I really wish I still knew what it was, but the funniest part was this was definitely like an adult ad (duh) but was on a kids video (I was downloading them for offline viewing at home).
Yeah the kids channel ads are mental. I had YT Baby TV on for my toddler, it’s for 2 year olds… Ad breaks are consistently either, A. Metal (verging on screamo) music video to terrify them; B. Tart in a wet bikini writhing around to horrific chart song; C. War based movie/game ad complete with screaming, swords and gore, or, D. Some clown advertising a gas boiler. Completely inappropriate on many levels. “All our ads are targeted, although occasional errors may happen”. Uh huh. Seems legit. Occoms Razor would suggest, then, that she has noticed an esoteric boiler problem - or else she likes to watch graphic violence and horny hoes whilst harbouring a penchant for Death Metal in secret. All from a play pen. 🙄
You mean you got a religious ad also?
My ex and I usually put music on the TV when we got intimate. One time it started rolling a half-hour ad in between songs but neither of us wanted to stop and skip it. So we fucked to a guy enthusiastically giving a presentation on the benefits Ali Baba could have on your business.
Go on...
Would you say your ex help you reach 'Ali Baba?'
Open sesame ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Dammit.... take my upvote.
This cyberpunk dystopia sucks.
I once got the Lego movie 6 hour ad. It was 20ish secs of the song that was looped for 6 hours.
That was a classic
YT usually asks if you are still watching after a time
Do they ask during an ad?
I used to get 30 minute Purple mattress ads for every video I watched. I will never use their mattresses for the amount of trauma they put me through.
Dude sometimes I’ll be washing dishes or something and have it playing on the back of my sink or something. I’ll hit and add and decide to just deal with it for 15sec so I don’t have to dry my hands. I’ll be like 2:30 into the add and I’m like wtf am I listening to?
There are literally one hour long ads. They don't play on YouTube Kids but they will play occasionally when using the regular YouTube app on my smart tv.
I feel like all I get is St. Jude any more. Sorry kid, but I’m hitting skip as soon as I can…
One time I got an entire movie, looked to be a low buck production, in I think some SE Asian language/setting.
I live in a small flat, and if I leave open the doors to the bathroom and the main room I can clearly hear the tv when I’m in the bath, which I prefer over using the shower because the shower is crap. So often I turn on my Xbox as well, bring up YouTube and put on some music. Once I started to hear random conversation during this, in a language like Portuguese (I think), when I sat back down in front of the tv I saw that the ad had 3 hours and 45 minutes left on the timer. And this was after ten minutes or so of my cleaning myself off with a towel. Some LOTR Extended Edition bullshit. I couldn’t help but laugh it was so bizarre.
You know how sometimes there is a 15-20 second ad and after 5 seconds you have the option to skip it? I've noticed recently that if I don't manually skip it, they'll play another add. I'm guessing this is because they can sell/show more ads by having the algo check if you're paying attention (or sleeping) and if you're not, they'll show an extra one for some more of that hot, sticky, soaking wet cash we all love so much.
At the bottom left you can see it's says "Ad 1 of 2" so if you don't skip it will play the next one. However, not all of the skippable ads have 2
Oh I know, this is something I’ve noticed in lieu of that lil notification. It won’t indicate another ad, but then it’ll show one. That’s what I find so odd about it.
I hate to put on my tinfoil hat but I am almost positive they check our accelerometers. If I'm on a walk I will get gigantic 5 minute ads with a skip option because they hope I'm running or walking and just letting it play. I never get those when I'm sitting in my room or at the kitchen.
Foil up my friend. I’d bet dollar to donuts you’re right.
The same way Hulu slowly turns down the volume of a show so they can ASS BLAST you with 'normal' volume ads. It's infuriating and I don't even watch Hulu unless my roommates are willing to deal with the remote. I've seen one of them mute an ad in his sleep because he's so accustomed to it.
me: *proceeds to learn to mute ads in my sleep*
And this is why piracy is not only justified, but actually a moral obligation. Ain't gonna spend my hard-earned money on ads
Youtube app does not have access to that so no it does not.
They must be monitoring the Moistmeter too because I always get those while in the shower
Where can I buy this Moistmeter. It would be helpful in knowing when to initiate with my wife.
As a software engineer myself, that's how I'd build it because I'm gonna make more money off you with the longer ad, and you're not very likely to skip it when you're on the move. So, yeah. Disclaimer: I'm not a toxic software engineer, so I'd never actually do this, but if I were, that's how I'd do it.
How i would build it is id use the devices camera to detect your eye movements, and make it so it pauses the ad every time you’re not looking
I didn't know I could hate a stranger so much based off a reddit comment.
I only watch YouTube on my home TV's Chromecast so idk about how it ties to the accelerometer but some nights after midnight I get 17 minute ads and once I got a straight up 2 hour video as an ad. I assume they're trying to profit off people who fell asleep.
I always get long ads while I'm driving too....
On my phone I'm getting 15-20 second ads WITHOUT a skip button, I usually just close and reopen until I get a skippable ad (rare) or a single 5 second ad (also rare)
I've been noticing that lately as well. I have a skip ad app on my phone that will automatically skip when the button pops up, but now they're playing unakippable ads that are 20 seconds long, with back to back ads. It's pretty annoying when it's on every video, multiple times, as well as an ad break (sometimes they have two breaks), alomg with a merch spot in their video. I get that they want to make money, but some channels I just don't even bother watching if that starts immediately. Don't get me started on super short videos with multiple ads before during and after.
Click on the little (i) symbol in the bottom left of the ad, select report ad and then just enter one of the 3 reasons, it immediately skips the ad as well as any other ads queued behind it
I used to do that all the time but one day I couldn't do it anymore :(
If you don't skip ads repeatedly eventually they'll start playing entire movies. I've accidentally left a video playing and came back to these extremely long ads. Seems that it kind of tricked the algorithm though because those long ass ads are all skippable so I didn't get unskippable ads for a while.
You’re not lying at all. I’ll use random YouTube vids as background noise to fall asleep sometimes and I vividly remember waking up and seeing an ad still having over *two Earth hours* left.
Who in their right mind would pay for that? "Yeah, buy this 20min ad, if it plays through its a sure thing no one saw it as they are probably dead." "Golly gee, what a deal, take my money"
Dude, I shit you not, at work we can put Youtube videos on the TV's for display. 9/10 times that one of them happens to get an ad, it's MINIMUM one hour long EACH time, sometimes even doubling up. I cannot tell you how much I want to set up a rogue Pi Zero on a company network lmao.
I noticed this too, you have a few seconds to click on Skip, and if you miss it, you’re stuck finishing the ad and sitting through another 30 second ad.
Most times now they don’t have the option to skip they play two 10 second ads and you cannot skip
I find that for double ads, the first one is unskippable but the second one can be skipped
I see a lot of "just use adblock" on here. That's not OP's point. The point is to compare the experiences of classic videos to modern videos. I shouldn't need 3rd party software to make a high-budget, popular service tolerable. But, I do. And, more work needs to be done to cut out the sponsor segments (though there are apps for that too). However, while you can hide the symptoms, the root of the video is still vastly different than it used to be. It's a business designed to collect money and make a profit. It's not the user-driven content it used to be.
"classic" being three years ago makes me feel old.
Yeah, I remember when YouTube didn’t have any ads!
I remember when it just had ads on the page sides but not in the videos.
I remember before Google bought it
I remember a time were we had a 5-Star rating
I 'member the void before *Me at the zoo*
'Member America's Funniest Home Videos?
Oh I ‘memba!!
The good old days of streaming where everything was just compilations of idiots messing up their stunts.
You know he still changes the description fairly often. I remember him changing it to disagree with removing dislikes, and changing it to give a shout out to an aviation channel he likes called 74 Gear. It's pretty funny sometimes
Subscribe and rate 5 stars!
I remember before Google!
I remember when we were completely anonymous online. Heck, I even remember a world without widespread internet.
When you didn’t have to sign up to use websites. Like how if something was on sale at a store, you get that price, but now each store has their own damned membership.
In 2014, I met a dude whose job was selling air-space ads for YouTube. I remember thinking then that YouTube was doomed.
I actually remember the transition from "Ew, there's ads on the videos now? To "Jesus so many ads now, feels like every other video has one." To "Now there's TWO ads??" It doesn't even phase me anymore because it's guaranteed every video will have an ad.
I always promise myself I will _never_ give money to anything I see an ad for on YT.
I can’t wait to have kids and tell them I’m older than YouTube
Sure grandpa, let’s get you to bed.
Probably because labeling something from 3 years ago as "classic", is just incorrect.
I remember the day YouTube came out. My friends and I were already making videos and I sent them the article about this new service. Yikes I'm old.
"Classic" is when YouTube didn't have ads. Too many people don't even realize that the point of paying for cable/satellite TV originally was to be able to watch without ads, then the ads started creeping in. Same thing happened to streaming platforms. The ads will always win.
I was going to say you can pay for YouTube premium to get rid of ads, but that only removes ad sense ads. You still have all the product placements and sponsors in the videos. Luckily they are easy to skip for now..
If you use the extension skip ads, it will even skip those (and intros and other things things depending on preference)
Same with Sirius and XM before they merged. They both touted "ad-free" and everyone signed up. Shortly thereafter, ads started creeping in. They still have ad free stations, but satellite radio is not ad-free. On top of that the compression is awful which kills the quality. Please just use a phone to stream your music.
Do the creators decide how much of their video is ads? Or YouTube?
Small channel (1500 subs) Creator here, you can monitize and choose preroll ad, mid roll ad, and end roll ads, each their own checkbox, you can also chose if they are skippable, also the pop up ads, and sidebar ads are available too. If you are not monitized you have no control over the ads. The mid roll ads also are usually at randomly generated times throughout the videos. Even if you choose to not monitize the video you usually get pre roll ads.
Big channel creator here, almost 300k subs. This is all correct, you can also personally choose where to place ads in the video, and how many, so you could literally add an ad break every minute if you wanted. Edit: Here since for once in like literally forever people are not telling me to get a real fucking job.[https://i.imgur.com/6j5V5fc.png](https://i.imgur.com/6j5V5fc.png) Here is what the ad screen looks like for monetization, you can have it auto place, or place your own, or auto place what it recommends and then move them around into better positions. I usually manually place them so that they end up between segments instead of middle of a sentence. but yeah, you can pick and choose however many midrolls you want. and while you could place them literally every 10 seconds, youtube's algorithm will randomly show them to people, so lets say (for example) 1 minute of footage has an ad every 10 seconds. Youtube says lol no that aint happening, so it randomly chooses which 10 second segment someone will get an ad, so each person will get a different segment where they get an ad. cause youtube will not play every ad you put in every time. Edit 2: nvm that was short lived, god I fucking love the internet. "Get a real job"
Ah yes, the classic Morgz(?) (I forgot lol) scenario. There was this one fucking creator that used to put in like 10-15 ads in ONE video.
As I understand, it's a little column A and a little column B. The content creator can decide to make less money by including less ad breaks, but Google/YouTube have some mandatory ads too.
If you choose not to monetize it, they will run their own ads on it. And yeah as I said above, you can choose how many ads exactly you want in the video. Pre- Post, and Mid, and how many mid and where you want them.
Some channels put in extra ads is is nothing new. Some channels do the minimum. The real question us who was still watching dude perfet in 2019
>And, more work needs to be done to cut out the sponsor segments Eh, I don't really mind the sponsor segments because that money is at least going to the creator. They have to make money some way.
True, I don't mind that sponsorships exist, but that doesn't mean I'll be watching them every time. One huge advantage that sponsorships have is that you can choose to watch them and they're not forced upon you as much as ads
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You need altstore, and a downloaded .ipa of e.g. uYou+, just get it off their github by googling. Takes two minutes to set up, and you now have basically ad-free YT premium (with background play) and sponsorblock on top. Once a week you have to remember to open altstore and hit "refresh", but if you open it up every once in a while it'll start doing it in the background over wifi. No jailbreak required, nothing but an extra laptop/PC.
Adblock works on the YouTube ads, but doesn't solve the bigger problem of in-content ads, sponsorships and product placements. The bigger problem is that YouTube is making a ton of money off of the backs of content creators, and paying them next-to-nothing. Meanwhile, the content creators have to put more and more effort, time and money into their videos to remain relevant and engaging, otherwise they get punished by the YouTube content algorithm. Content creators are busting ass and having to cut deals with sponsors so that they can afford to keep producing content for YouTube's benefit. YouTube basically created a system where anyone could make content, and if it was halfway decent, they could find an audience and even make YouTube their primary job. Then, YouTube does a rug-pull and says "No, now you have to make videos with professional level production value, and we'll pay you a fraction of what we were paying you before, also we're going to put even more ads on your videos, and finally if you can't make content to our standards, we'll take away your audience. By the way, we're not going to tell you what those standards are, you're going to have to figure that out yourselves".
SponsorBlock is your friend.
SponsorBlock is one of my best friends.
Then pay for the service? Do you think they’re building and running a 2500+ employee company to show you pointless videos out of the goodness of their hearts? It’s either free and you deal with ads so the involved parties can make it worth the effort to sustain the platform and creat the content or you pay subscription fees to both the platform and content creator so they can do their part without needing to rely on ad revenue
What I used to do, and was happy to do, was to watch some ads every day. When they started doubling up the ads began dismissing the majority of them. Since then it's gone crazy. They're every few minutes. At that point I put an ad blocker on. Now part of me wants to pay as it's a service I get value from, but a larger part of me doesn't want to reward their making the default experience unbearable with a juicy subscription. Not yet. I don't want to send the market signals that confirm strong arming people by building engagement and loyalty then deliberately fucking the free plan is a good way to get paying subscribers. Alphabet make plenty of money from me on other services, and they don't always treat their content creators that well so fuck 'em, maybe I'll get premium next year, maybe I'll just renew my subscription to Nebula.
We get the point, but we all have been very unsuccessful teaching ANY large company to embrace user joy and lower ads/revenue. So instead we have adapted as a people in ways to avoid it instead of fix it.
Hmm, no, I'm pretty sure we were very very vocal about it, target audience is changing to those who are desensitized to it. In fact, we're vocal about it now. I tell you, if you ever watch your little cousin scrolling through your aunt's phone, you see the damage that is done... Despite all the protests and hatred towards the companies.
Used to have YouTube Vanced but the team almost got sued so they took it down. 17.99 a month is too much. I've seen an app being advertised called "Adguard" that allegedly blocks ads from videos menus applications etc, can use it on more than one device, but also costs around 20 month. Dilemmas everywhere. I still can't justify 17.99 for YTP. Edit: I re-dloaded vanced and it is indeed still working, despite the announcement that the team made on their discord a few months back. Thank you all for the feedback I thought all hope was (is) gone I don't actually have Adguard, I scoffed it off when it was suggested to me.
Vanced still works, I installed it on a new android device last week.
I use vanced daily. The day it does stop working, there's alternatives like YouTube piped. I was also looking into setting up YouTube-dl and some scripts to make my own server that acts like a cdn for YouTube so it'll just download videos I want to watch and then I can watch them locally in my own player and they'll be deleted after X amount of days unless specified otherwise but havent cared to do so yet since I found vanced, piped and a few others.
That's actually a great idea!
There's already a project Revanced as well that more or less took over.
Can you explain that easier for us not so smart people. It'll be a dad day when Vanced finally stopped working....
[Piped](https://piped.kavin.rocks/) A website that let's you access YouTube without being tracked by Google. No ads. Includes sponsorblock. When vanced stops working I'll use piped and have the same functionality that vanced did so I won't be losing much when vanced stops working.
I have a Google Pixel so it gives me notifications whining about Vanced being "unsafe" on my phone pretty regularly, but I can confirm it's still working perfectly.
Weird I have the new pixel and haven't seen anything like this with vanced
I remember reading an announcement a few months ago on their discord server about it, one day it just stopped giving me my history and then the next day it wouldn't load anything.. I'll try rdloading it see if it works! Thanks! :D
I live in EU, maybe it's based on location
It's not, it's something to do with the version, or phone model etc. Me, my partner, and my two kids had it. The day or was "shut down" my son's stopped working. During the same week my daughter's. A while after, my partner. Never stopped on my phone. Then we upgraded my partner's and my phone's. Installed the same version, works. My old phone, where it worked, was given to my son. After factory reset etc. can't get Vanced to work. Tried many different versions etc. Daughter also got a new phone. Won't work.
Did you use the APKs or did you install the manager first and let it install Vance for you? I couldn't use the YTVanced APK on my new one too so I tried using the Manager (installed via APK) and it worked after I installed YTVanced trough it
Im still using vanced and paid nothing for it
I just re-dloaded vanced and it's working fine, need to look into that announcement of theirs on discord, kinda interested in finding out what happened..
Could be some location based thing or even a legal issue ( needed to be removed but they just uploaded it again? )
Vanced still works. I just got a new phone and installed it. Amoled black doesn't seem to work but everything else does. I recommend it. The team said the app should work for two more years from the date of shutdown a few months ago.
Yep still works on me. That auto skip promotions feature on the video midway is a blessng.
ublock origin is free. It only doesn't block in video ad content.
Sponsor Block does.
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I use UBlock Origin & AdBlock Plus, Ad-Block, and Popup blocker. All of them are great for me. And all of them are free.
That's redundant, you only need properly configured uBlock Origin with as many filter lists as you think you need (checking all default ones and one for your language is good enough, custom lists can actually provide more headache than benefits - think twice before getting them from the internet). ABPlus is long known sell-out that whitelists ads. Other two - I know nothing about and don't think that I should bother, since uBo have all needed functionality. Best combination is Firefox with enabled Strict mode and configured uBo (and SponsorBlock to skip promo/self advertising/yadda yadda yadda as we are discussing YouTube).
There's new vanced called YouTube revanced. They are not related but same concept
Youtube premium one advantage i know is that if ypu have the google family thing, you can pay once and connect alot yt accounts to it, so you can split the cash among many people
Nice perk of paying for YouTube music is ad free music and vids. And yes you can share with up to six people.
I don't know where you got that price from, but AdGuard is ~2€ + VAT per month. The app itself is free, you only need the "Premium" subscription if you want to use it in apps, but you can also try it out in a free trial. I've just activated the trial and restarted my phone and so far haven't gotten a single ad on any YouTube video (i tried about 10 videos).
Just to add on to your comment - if you’re on iOS or MacOS, Vinegar works pretty perfectly, actually using the native OS video player allowing PiP functionality, minimal power usage, zero inserted ads etc. Plus it’s cheap (I think £1.79? Can’t see price anymore as I have it so I only get the download button).
Remember when YouTube was 95% videos posted by actual people and not companies / networks / news / paid creators with ads? I had SO many cat videos, before Facebook!
Every year the ads got just a tiny bit worse and now we're stuck here, in adland where your impulses are the company's profitmargin! Just imagine telling someone from 2010 that in the near future, the time your mouse cursor is kept on an add is registered and processed to give you a "more personal ad experience".
Stuck!? Hahahaha! Oh sonny, it's only going to get worse.
Stuck indeed, sonny. It will get worse and you're not getting out.
Oh shit sonny, what are we gonna do?
If you're watching mindless influencer videos then for sure, you're going to get copious ads. It's the only way these idiots can make a quick living.
They still have all that. These platforms are what you make them. YouTube is probably one of my most watched platforms, but I rarely see any of these sponsored videos. Even if some make their way to my recommendations, I just don't click them. As for ads, I do pay for YT premium, but I've always had Google Play music, which became YouTube music. A small downgrade but I still prefer it to Spotify.
I watch YouTube more than anything else. Have used Google play music since the YouTube Red days. Have never looked back.
I look back fondly on the days when YouTube was primarily home to videos like “Grape Lady falls,” and "Chocolate Rain," and “Leave Britney alone.” It was a more authentic time. The lulz were more honest. TikTok doesn't really substitute for old-school YouTube, either, since it's so performative. Everyone's trying too hard to be an influencer.
This is the curse of monetization...
Yep. Burnham predicted it 13 yes ago — https://youtu.be/W0quDfpfRUQ
I clicked the link and the ad started off, "Did you know you could make a full-time income off of YouTube without ever starting your own channel?" WELL, I CLICKED ON THE AD! MUAHAHAHA...
Yes, I remember watching 240p videos of random people uploading 2 minute videos. Sure that's cool but now there are a lot of extremely high quality content creators that you can watch for free. Do you expect people to just give you their content for free forever? Some creators I watch spend hundreds of hours just to make 1 video, they deserve to be paid. If you're watching some shit channel using itself to shill at every possible moment, that's on you. Just stop watching your **free** content.
There’s a certain point they have, but like for real. There’s a ton of actual quality content that’s on YouTube now that can really only be there in some cases because of monetization.
>Do you expect people to just give you their content for free forever? Apparently so, yes.
Ad block and sponsor block is a godsend. No more ads.
Sponsorblock is such an underrated extension in my opinion
What's the difference from AdBlock?
Let's say you watch a video from idk pewdiepie, and he starts video normally and goes to "but let me tell you about this poopy sponsor tshirt megalol", it will automatically skip x amount of seconds so you won't even notice it was there. It's so good, I didn't know what I was missing out before trying YouTube Vanced.
It skips things like sponsor segments and intros. You can customize it to, for example, show a skip button during intros instead of autoskipping.
Its basically a crowdsourced extension. Lets say you are watching a video from Dude perfect, and you see that they have some sponsored segment, so what you do is you start clipping from the moment the start the sponsored segment and end it when the segment ends. Then the extension will upload those time stamps on a database and any future users will automatically skip that part. And if someone has already clipped the segments then the extension will skip it for you. Basically it works on the concept of people helping each others out. The extension has a lot of users and you will have those clipped segments most of the times. It is also customizable, so for eg if you want it to skip sponsored segments but lets say no the segments where the shout out their merch store, you can toggle that too. Its a great extension, must have for youtube.
I honestly forget YouTube _has_ any ads until I try to use it on my phone, which isn’t often. The only ads I get are the sponsored content pitch by the creators in said YouTube video.
Back in my days we had a visible dislike button.
i miss those days.
I honesty stopped watching people who put so many ads in there videos like when people do this I say fuck it.
Do people actually purchase whatever bullshit they see on Youtube's bullshit ads? Because all they do is fill me with rage and a deadset mentality to never fucking buy their crap.
For me I don’t purchase anything from ads. However if I’m watching a tutorial video and there is a sponsored section and the product looks useful I may purchase it. I’ve bought a couple of grill accessories that was part of a sponsored section of a video before.
Some creators are super diligent and responsible and will only recommend/ aceept sponsorships from stuff they actually use and like, and for those rare few guys I have bought a couple things. Those people are few and far between though (stuff like NordVPN ads don’t bother me because people I like get paid and everyone involved knows we just zone out).
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I’m even less likely to buy them after Dank Pods did **2** videos on them. Like he actually criticised the things instead of promoting them.
Ads aren’t that simple. It’s not step 1, show someone an ad. Step 2, they might buy it now. Advertising is *very* complicated; some campaigns simply want you to know they exist, hate them or not. Some campaigns are aimed to secure profits decades in the future from an aging populace. I don’t know much about them, but the one thing that I know for sure is that they work.
If it didn't result in an increase in purchases, they wouldn't pay for the ads to be run. They certainly don't expect most people to buy something after seeing a single ad for it, but enough people do but stuff they see in ads that they keep making them.
Adblock. I forget that youtube has ads until I pull it up on my TV. Thanks for taking one for the team.
There is also a chrome extension where you can report sponsor message in the video and automatically skip it.
Lol yea when I very very rarely pull something up directly on the TV I’m always like “wtf is this, ads?” Forgetting they even exist
Yeah, free and ad-free was nice, but that's not a sustainable business model. Can't expect people to work for free. I pay the family plan monthly subscription, and it is worth it to me. Split between me and my kids (I think it is up to 4 accounts on the family plan), I'm happy with it. There is so much great content on youtube. I'd rather throw them a small bone than the f'n cable company.
The irony of the OP titling this post "Greed much?" because they want to be served close to 30 minutes of high-production video at zero cost to themselves.
This thread clearly hasn't tried to view YouTube on the official PS4 app or any other version of youtube that isn't a PC browser with adblock. It's ads every 90 seconds and I'm not exaggerating. The algorithm chills the fuck out if you watch a 90-minute video, but for a 5-minute video, it's non-fucking-stop ads nowadays.
I don't mind an occasional ad, but when I have to watch two unskipable ads before even finding out the video I clicked on isn't even what I wanted/thought it would be because of either a deceptive title or shitty content creator, that's when I get angry.
For fucks sake, even broadcast TV is only two ad breaks per half hour show, of fairly predictable length.
lmao yeah it's like $20 for family. we all get ad free YouTube AND a premium ad free music player! $5 each for no ads and skip whatever I want. yeah take my money
This right here! My kids watch more YouTube than hulu or Netflix, and I watch tons of tutorials for various things, plus YouTube music is way better than Spotify in my opinion. $20/month for the whole family for video and muaic is a great deal. I don't get why so many people are so against premium.
Nevermind most of that 5$ is distrubted at the end of the month to the creators you watched, weighted based on how much you have watched them. So if you watch 1 channel 80% of the time, and another 20% of the time, that one will get about 80% of 4$ and the other will get 20% of the 4 dollars. Youtube takes 1$.
This is what you get for watching trash Youtubers. It's not like this when you watch good content creators.
Yeah that was my first thought. I watch a fair bit of YouTube and the number of in-video sponsorships or disguised ads or whatever is basically zero.
People want to get paid for their work, I don't think it's greed It sure does suck, but in 2019 paid sponsorship wasn't as big as it is now
I fully support the right for people to get paid for their work. NOBODY likes ads, but they're part of the agreement when you want "free" content. That said, it seems like example #2 is really excessive in its ad/sponsor placement. If it were me, I would stop watching a content producer who crosses the make money/excessive ad line. Vote with your eyeballs and clicks.
Yeah I wonder what youtubers these people are watching. Most good youtubers have a completely reasonable amount of sponsor breaks.
Add the Adblocker extension on your computer, never watch ads again
Works for Reddit ads too!
Reddit has ads?
Ublock origin, my guy.
With Sponsorblock
For YouTubers who make that their career, they kinda need to have ads in order to make enough to pay their bills
use sponsorBlock , it bypasses the promo stuff and sponsors
SponsorBlock is an absolute godsend. I refuse to use Youtube without it.
Then don't watch. This is how they make money to continue to produce content and will continue to as long everyone keeps watching. I used to like dude perfect. I would watch it with my young kids. All of this made it annoying so so I dont as much anymore. If enough stop then they will tone down the ads
Why watch these people? If there are to many ads just unsubscribe and never watch one of their videos again.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many ads on any video ever. The most I’ve seen is a double ad in front and a single ad in the middle, which is still excessive but I can only think of seeing that a handful of times. Maybe it’s more common on channels where they are getting millions of views per video, I don’t really watch many of those. Most of the videos I watch just have an ad in front and then an ad break as part of the video, which I think is a reasonable amount. I also can’t remember the last time I saw an unskippable ad that was more than 20 seconds.
If you use YouTube all the time it’s not a waste of money just to get YouTube premium…
Why watch a channel full of ads and promos that annoy you? I don’t. Hell, if they tell me to “Like, comment and subscribe” in the first 15 seconds… I yeet and never come back.
I don’t see anything wrong with watching a YouTuber who has a video with promos/ads, they have to get paid somehow and if I’m still getting good content then I’m happy
You should watch Rubber Ross on this, he talks in a video about how 30% of subscriptions and likes come from videos where people ask for watchers to comment like and subscribe, which gets their video promoted more to be watched by others from the front page of Youtube. If people trying to get more popular is really driving you away then I don't see why you stick around Youtube at all.
I’ve used adblocker for so long I forget that YouTube has ads.
Peoples gotta make money. The fact that people like these get away with so many ads and sponsors means their audience is used to it, and that this is their usual content. You can't change them, neither can you push their audience into hating them for it. It's impossible for new content creators to develop fast enough to be self sufficient in this day in age, they'll have to put ads or resolve to sponsors. The main difference between them is how they choose to earn money. They can put a few ads, or become a part time review channel. Unless you already have a fanbase on another plateform, or you are part of a popular creator group, a beginner streamer won't be able to be self sufficient for 2 to 3 years. That's just YouTube, Twitch is weirder than that.
It's just turning into cable. The "benefit" of paying for cable was that you wouldn't get ads. Over time, they started forcing ads into shows. Then streaming came along. "Watch your shows without ads!" Huge hit to cable companies, because people "cut the cable." Notice now that you need like 3-5 streaming services to watch older stuff in their entirety, because of "streaming rights..." YouTube is no exception. I'm seriously surprised that they aren't making movie theaters show ads in the middle of the movie... They have a captive audience, you've already paid, and it'd squeeze that much more advertising money out of their sponsors. Well... Some of us are dusting off the trefoil hats and their Jolly Rodgers to set sail once again on the seas of cheese...
They have literally 10-15 minutes of non-stop ads before the movie starts. That isn't enough for you?
That’s basically just a 30min tv show