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Honestly this wouldn't be an issue if youtube's ads weren't such a completely offensive and miserable experience. When they first started pushing ad-free subsc

Honestly this wouldn't be an issue if youtube's ads weren't such a completely offensive and miserable experience. When they first started pushing ad-free subscriptions to youtube I first noticed the ads got EXTREMELY aggressive and over time seem to not really have got better, only worse. Skip around the video too much? Ad. Skip too many in a row? Congrats, now you have a long-form unskippable ad. I haven't been bothered to measure it but you can't really watch much more than a minute of youtube without being served obnoxious ads. The user experience is terrible and it felt so much that I was being harassed into buying a subscription that I resolved to never do so. Adblockers are a logical response to such hostile behavior towards users.

duxup 3y ago
The ads are terrible. I've gotten a bunch of gross out sorta visual ads... who oked that? Also a bunch of really weird conspiracy theory type products. Like dude a hat that protects me from "brain fuzz" because it has effect on EM or something ... wtf? Having said that it's easy to complain about how terrible they are but I don't think the ads sucking is as much an issue as that people just don't like ads... don't want to pay.
ljm 3y ago
I think the worst part is how poorly curated they are. It's not an advert when your playlist is interrupted by 'ads' that go from several minutes to several hours long, meaning you always have to be aware of when to skip them. I like to leave YT stuff on in the background and it's amazingly disruptive when it's interrupted by 30 minutes of some shitty mumble rap music video/ad, or some obscure London mayoral candidate delivering an 8 minute long speech.