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NotAGamer@lemmy.org 6 days ago
2 issues. Inconsistent quality control of ads. In some places ads have content that would be banned in the actual YouTube videos. There’s also inconsistent quantity of ads. You can have 5 second or 14.5 second unskippable ads with the timer for determining if an ad is unskipple getting longer and longer. I’ve also seen a 10 minute video with 3 double ad stops and it’s all creeping up with them even now not showing the timer for ads in the Android app. They were fine when they started ads but it’s getting worse.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I wish that I’d screenshotted it, but I’ve had one outrageously long 1+ hr. ad on Youtube. The thing was literally a feature length infomercial, I thought that autoplay had carried onto the next videos in my playlist and couldn’t believe that it was an ad when I saw the length. For shit like that to have slipped through Youtube’s “quality control” even once speaks volumes - how in the Hell did someone submit an ad longer than a Saturday morning cartoon and have it slotted into the same category as 15 second toothpaste ads?
NotAGamer@lemmy.org 6 days ago
The longest ad I’ve see on YouTube was about 7 years ago and I watched the whole ad because someone paid for the entire Michael Jackson’s Thriller video as an ad.