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Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are

Weirdly, and annoyingly, I get this same thing when watching YouTube on my TV. Via Roku stick, Chromecast or anything. However watching the same thing on a laptop or my phone even without any adblock and the video will play far better. Maybe 1 ad at the halfway point and nothing else.

I don’t know why the TV version of YouTube is such an arse for ads. They’re not even in clean places - I get an ad mid-sentence.

Honestly, for a 20 minute video I’d be perfectly ok with a 30 second ad or so. It helps the creators and isn’t that much of a pain for me. But getting adverts every 2 minutes, even if they’re skippable is just a horrific experience.

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BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The time and set duration for their ads is based on viewer habits, so they are basically banking that you are too lazy to skip it or are out of the room and they can still claim they ran the whole ad.

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- yuknowhokat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Recently in a 5 minute video an ad came up that showed it was an hour and 10 minutes long. There is no good reason for that garbage
  
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  - BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Dude with kids cartoons it’s horrible. 5+ min ads disguised as cartoons for 2min videos. It’s absurd.
    
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    th3dogcow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If you use the kids YouTube app then there are no ads. On tv, you can use the regular YouTube app to switch to your child’s account and then no more ads.
    
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GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve noticed that as well. Its like YouTube is adding in extra ads for Roku et al. for their own profit…

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Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Try SmartTube github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

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- ArghZombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks, but I can’t install into a Roku, which is the main TV I’d be using.
  
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