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The number of ads is getting pretty bad now. I use the YouTube app for Apple TV (so no chance for an ad blocker) and it has been slowly increasing the last two

The number of ads is getting pretty bad now. I use the YouTube app for Apple TV (so no chance for an ad blocker) and it has been slowly increasing the last two years. I even get surveys asking "How is the Ad experience?" and I always answer the lowest. I frequently get 30 seconds of unskippable ads multiple times in a video. One set at the beginning and following sets at approximately 3 minute intervals. At least some mid-rolls are skippable but they are totally random. Like, maybe a set of 2 ads where the first is 15 second and the second is 15 seconds that is skippable after 5 seconds. The combination of length and skippable is confusing. More annoying is the tendency to sneak a 3 minute ad in there that is skippable. So unless I am in the room and near the remote it will just play the whole thing. I've had ads that are up to 15 minutes long. If they would offer me a sign-up deal I'd probably just get YouTube premium at this point.

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iforgotpassword 3y ago
> I've had ads that are up to 15 minutes long. I once had the whole AMD event revealing a new Ryzen generation and some GPU as an ad, like more than an hour. The fact that you can just put whatever as an ad is wild.
- throwaway54_56 3y ago
  Less of an ad and more of a "here, watch this instead"
danaris 3y ago
There is at least some chance for an adblocker with AppleTV: you could set up something like a PiHole blocking for your whole network.
yogurtboy 3y ago
The ads on TV apps are awful, and noticeably worse than watching just on my phone (which is stupid because my phone is the one casting to the TV).
themaninthedark 3y ago
I had an ad that was 30 minutes or an hour long at one point, it was for a watch. The unfortunate thing was, the ad itself was actually interesting, going into a lot of manufacturing details but I didn't have time to watch it them and there is no way to find it.

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iforgotpassword 3y ago

> I've had ads that are up to 15 minutes long. I once had the whole AMD event revealing a new Ryzen generation and some GPU as an ad, like more than an hour. The fact that you can just put whatever as an ad is wild.

throwaway54_56 3y ago
Less of an ad and more of a "here, watch this instead"

danaris 3y ago

There is at least some chance for an adblocker with AppleTV: you could set up something like a PiHole blocking for your whole network.

yogurtboy 3y ago

The ads on TV apps are awful, and noticeably worse than watching just on my phone (which is stupid because my phone is the one casting to the TV).

themaninthedark 3y ago

I had an ad that was 30 minutes or an hour long at one point, it was for a watch. The unfortunate thing was, the ad itself was actually interesting, going into a lot of manufacturing details but I didn't have time to watch it them and there is no way to find it.