I recently saved a post somewhere with a complete guide on cracked youtube on smart tv’s which wasn’t all too difficult iirc… let me know if you want me to dig it up.
Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
So I’m a little lazy and have to watch ads when I watch YouTube on my TV. I don’t care enough to fix this.
Anyways, I don’t mind the short ads. I get it, you gotta pay for your stuff somehow. What I don’t get is these ads that can stretch on for 10, 15, even 150 minutes. I think I had a 3 hour ad at one point. It’s insane. You should have to opt in to these ads that are longer than say 30 seconds.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Found it! github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Skates@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Opt in?
A Google exec should be shot for any ads longer than 30 seconds.
I was in the shower once and wanted some music. I started the YouTube app on my phone cause revanced was acting up at the time. I had to sit through an x minute ad, I’m not even sure how long. I was seeing red by the time my shower was over.
I’d hazard a guess that this old quora post that was estimating the average American loses 4.2 years of their life on ads would now result in even more time lost on ads, but let’s go with 4.2 years per person. This means that for every 20 people, there’s one person’s lifetime of ads. “A life for a life” is the only fair concept, Google. Start the culling.