Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable

projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kunaltyagi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Server will not send you more video till you answer a survey correctly about the ad /s

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• ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Currently, most of the 30 sec+ ads let you skip them after 5 seconds or so. Seems like that is going away. I dont think they are injecting ads directly into videos yet, so ad block should still work

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dont think they are injecting ads directly into videos yet, so ad block should still work

    Weren’t they saying last year they will be doing that? did they delay it, or what happened?

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    • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No clue. Trying not to think about it. Ill be quitting cold turkey when that happens

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  • projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So they will be skippable :)

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    • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aye

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