Discussion YT Ads?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Lazriser, Aug 23, 2020.

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Are you experiencing the same as me, too?

  1. Yeah

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  2. Nope

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  1. Lazriser

    Lazriser Well-Known Member

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    Is it just me or is YouTube having another blast of ads? Like how many refreshes or tabs must I do to see one video? Fuck! It's even worse when some can't be skipped or takes the whole duration making the skip useless. Damn you ads!
     
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  2. lnv

    lnv ✪ Well-Known Hypocrite

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    I'll take what is an adblocker for 500?
     
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  3. Nyamsus

    Nyamsus Life is full of shit and we live in it

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    PC, nope
    Android YT apps, yeah
     
  4. juniorjawz

    juniorjawz Well-Known Member

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    On mobile app it sucks. Used browser with extension sometimes to stop them ads.
     
  5. Jiggy

    Jiggy I am JiggyliFAP~ the not fat anymore guy.

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    I almost always watch ads to support the content creators. I'm a grateful leech.
     
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    MangoGuy Rambling Mango

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    The number of ads and the longer, unskippable ads have increased for me.
     
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  7. Milanin

    Milanin [Reader] [???] [Freeloader]

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    I have noticed an increase of unskippable 5s+ ads...
    I even had a 15 and a 30 sec unskippable ad once...

    What's worse is that when I'm not on my PC and am trying to enjoy a mix playlist of music, there are suddenly ads in-between... Which just ruins the mood completely
     
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    ExcitableFoci Well-Known Member

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    *Disables U-Block Origin to watch a video on Youtube.*

    YT proceeds to shove two unskippable ads down my throat.

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  9. ongoingwhy

    ongoingwhy Meat Pie Lover

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    I used to disable adblock for Youtube but now I only do it for Youtube channels that I like.
     
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    LAOG Well-Known Member

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    Get the brave browser. Has a built-in adblocker that works great.
     
  11. lnv

    lnv ✪ Well-Known Hypocrite

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    You mean the browser that puts in affiliate links secretely? Firefox+ublock is the way to go.
     
  12. susanty.smile

    susanty.smile [Insomniac]

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    if it is an hour long with 2-3 ads, i was still ok
    but there's an hour long with +10 ads, like 'xcuse me...what is this??

    also there're ads with >1hours long!!!! even +3 minutes is too long ok!!!
     
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    Ruyue Well-Known Member

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    They have gotten really, really, really comfortable with longer, unskippable ads. By the way, anyone else getting a lot of, Rise of Kingdoms, ads.
     
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    My experience is that Twitch is worse with ads than YT is.
     
  15. Ghost87

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    I really don't like themmm….like im trynna watch something and it just interrupts, and I don't like that...
    Also is it just me or like I have been seeing a little too many ads in YT ( im talking about 2-3 ads per 20 min video )
     
  16. Stopitgetaway

    Stopitgetaway ↳ [HIATUS] Holy Property

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    I use the opera gx browser and it has a built in ad-blocker and vpn so I don't have issues on my laptop. On my phone however, I didn't notice much change other than the fact that I get two unskippable ads in a row sometimes.
     
  17. Diametric

    Diametric Waifu Connoisseur

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    They're usually only like 5 seconds and there's never more than two. Why not just wait 10 seconds instead of wildly refreshing and opening new tabs for 7 seconds?
     
  18. mangoberry

    mangoberry beatsaber is too addictive...

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    youtube is somehow almost bypassing my adblocker for some reason, it shows a white screen with skip ad. super annoying.
     
  19. akki

    akki [Ani's C☕ffee-mate #3] [Shady Merchant]

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    Ads are annoying but I’ve somewhat got used to them. Though the random ad in the middle I find stupid. What’s really annoying me now is when I’m listening to something as I work and the video stops. When I go to YouTube there’s a pop up that asks if you want to sign in. Wtf man why you interrupting me for that? If I wanted to sign in I would have done it when I went on to YouTube~
     
  20. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    open on firefox, be it mobile or pc, install adsblock, never use youtube app~
    well there one kind of ads such way fail~
    da ads is inside da video~ example, this video sponsored by blablabla or talking about xxx then introduce yyy~ or the most obvious it will fail~

    watch video about ads or ads video~ well where do you think people know weird ads exist on other country?