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Which is exactly GPs point. The advertisements are forced, not skippable because that is how the platform makes money.

• gpm 7y ago
  No, the post your respond to is making the point that forced not skippable advertisements are, at least with him, causing youtube to lose money. I suspect they are with many people, they are a very strong motivator to only use the platform when you have some form of adblock enabled that prevents you from seeing the ads at all. They probably also reduce the total number of views = total number of ad impressions for people not using adblock.
• Fjolsvith 7y ago
  After I've seen an ad once, I get to make the decision whether it's relevant to me on TikTok. On Youtube, they would like you to review the ad all over again, just to see if possibly you changed your mind. In fact, I've had the same ad replayed back at me so many times that my enjoyment of the videos was ruined. Why do I have to suffer the repeat annoyance? And even when I've skipped the same ad twelve times, why do I then have to watch the ad full length before I can continue to the video? At what point does Google treat me like an adult that can decide the relevance of content? This is the very reason I cut the cord on Cable TV.