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Nope, same here. They used to have either one 5s ad or a skippable 20s+ ad. At some point they've started to roll two 5-10s ads back to back, or unskippable 10-

by jorvi 7y ago

Nope, same here. They used to have either one 5s ad or a skippable 20s+ ad. At some point they've started to roll two 5-10s ads back to back, or unskippable 10-30s ads, and only the 30s+ are skippable. The topmost video in the app is always an ad as well, in addition to all the text ads you mentioned. I get that video hosting costs beaucoup bucks but the amount of ads is getting ridiculous.. Its happening on other sites in other ways as well (either dark patterns or vast amounts of ads) and it has gotten me to the point where I actively take pleasure in extracting the maximum value for me as customer (so blocking ads, using VPN to pay in rubles or rupees, etc) as most companies these days see you as nothing but entities to suck as much profit out of as possible, with no regard for a reasonable middle ground. Sucks for them, that's a two-way street.

lokedhs 7y ago
It's gotten so bad that I installed Newpipe instead. Basically I tolerated Youtube ads up to a point, but now that I'm using Newpipe instead, neither Youtube nor the creators get anything. I wish there was a better way, since it's not pracitcal to contribute to all channel's patreons.
- warp 7y ago
  Subscribe to Youtube premium?
  - phaus 7y ago
    Like many others mentioned, they don't completely stop nagging you simply because you subscribe.
PretzelFisch 7y ago
youtube has served me an hour + ad. The non skippable ads keep getting longer as well. But the ad AI is so bad it won't take a full watched ad as a signal, rather it keeps pushing things I want have previously skip over/ simular where they will be skipped.
- concerned_user 7y ago
  You have to press report and select irrelevant, or not interested, it helps after a while, it is not immediate. I used to get tons and tons of mobile game ads but after doing this to 10-15 of those amount of those is almost none. I get one occasionally, so it definitely works in a way. I don't think it is possible to get no ads by banning all the categories this way, it will just become random at that point I guess.

by jorvi 7y ago

lokedhs 7y ago

It's gotten so bad that I installed Newpipe instead. Basically I tolerated Youtube ads up to a point, but now that I'm using Newpipe instead, neither Youtube nor the creators get anything. I wish there was a better way, since it's not pracitcal to contribute to all channel's patreons.

warp 7y ago
Subscribe to Youtube premium?
- phaus 7y ago
  Like many others mentioned, they don't completely stop nagging you simply because you subscribe.

PretzelFisch 7y ago

youtube has served me an hour + ad. The non skippable ads keep getting longer as well. But the ad AI is so bad it won't take a full watched ad as a signal, rather it keeps pushing things I want have previously skip over/ simular where they will be skipped.

concerned_user 7y ago
You have to press report and select irrelevant, or not interested, it helps after a while, it is not immediate. I used to get tons and tons of mobile game ads but after doing this to 10-15 of those amount of those is almost none. I get one occasionally, so it definitely works in a way. I don't think it is possible to get no ads by banning all the categories this way, it will just become random at that point I guess.