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YouTube tried to show me a 25 minute video today as a mid-video advertisement. The fuck.

• dotancohen 8y ago
  I suspect that those 10+ minute advertisements are aimed at people who just leave Youtube open in a background tab playing music all day. 25 minutes seems to be a new record. Congratulations!
  • kalleboo 8y ago
    I once got a 30 minute ad that was just a webinar for how to use some development tool. Very strange.
  • DanBC 8y ago
    I've had a few, and that's not how I use Youtube. I did wonder if it was an experiemnt to see just how far they could push ad-tolerant people like me.
    • dotancohen 8y ago
      The old adage about giving an inch definitely applies here.
• justinclift 8y ago
  Use an Ad blocker. :)
  • close04 8y ago
    Not on a TV for example. Even Pi Hole doesn't cut it since YouTube/Google do their best to use random URLs that are close to impossible to block entirely.
    • busterarm 8y ago
      Aye. I actually connect everything through Algo and use that ad-blocking. This didn't work because the ad was just merely another youtube video. One I've watched before, even. They're definitely trying to boost the view count of that video (it's the first 23ish minutes of that new Gundam movie).
• Jonnax 8y ago
  They want to get a high number of views on their video. Paying for it to play as adverts works