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> I've noticed that since the beginning of this year Beginning of this year? I tried only once watching something on youtube without an ad blocker... some blo

> I've noticed that since the beginning of this year Beginning of this year? I tried only once watching something on youtube without an ad blocker... some bloodborne speed run i think, it was a little over 1 hour long. That was 2-3 years ago. It was the first time I was using the youtube app on that tablet, I generally use it for text content. Youtube decided it should give me 2 ads every 5 ... fucking ... minutes. I think that if it were television, it would have been illegal in my jurisdiction. I ended up finding it on twitch.tv which I think didn't give me any ads back then.

throwaway14356 2y ago
I ended up in some experiment I'm sure when it served 3 unskipable 5 min ads every 5 minutes or so
bmitc 2y ago
Well, however bad it was, it has gotten really bad lately. I just close out of videos and YouTube now, which I guess is good. Luckily, more of the niche content and small-time channels (the sort of videos that made YouTube nice back in the day) don't get as many ads, but even those are getting flooded with ads more and more.