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Sort of related: I've noticed that regular Youtube has been cranking up the ads quite a lot lately. I view most of my youtube on the TV, via their crappy HTML
by tpmx 6y ago
Sort of related:
I've noticed that regular Youtube has been cranking up the ads quite a lot lately.
I view most of my youtube on the TV, via their crappy HTML-based Apple TV app. So many ads to suffer through, suddenly.
On the desktop, it seems like they've suddenly started work against that one chrome extension I've loved the most: The one that blocks the ads from youtube.
I can't see myself subscring to youtube red or whatever they call it. Just not going to happen.
- DavidPeiffer 6y agoI've noticed a significant uptick in ads as well. The ad quality is akin to ads on streaming-specific apps. It's not uncommon to only have ~4 different ads shown to you on something like CBS Mobile. They have the potential to target ads, they have an app installed (and all the privacy implications that go with it), but somehow they're showing the same 30 second ad 4 times in a row to make up a commercial break. Others are far better. For a time, ESPN's app would simply show the logo and repeat the same ~4 second music loop until the commercials were done.
- tpmx 6y agoYeah, the ad quality is horrible. I'm in Sweden; I've seen/skipped through all of the local ads like 200 times each by now. At least it feels like that. Sometimes you get something new - it's always some poor american local company that made their own ad (often some construction company targetting home owners) but messed up the geotargetting, I presume.