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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

and a mutli-hour ad. Who the fuck would watch that, who the fuck would pay to put a multi-hour ad on an 8m video that nobody is going to watch?

People who are hoping to get a captured audience that cant get up and click the skip button for whatever reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    They least they could do is target it a little. It's always about some shit that YT already knows i DGAF about

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    never know, you'd be surprised the assumptions youtube makes about you based on what you watch.

    I watch a couple fishing channels, and it seems that anything outdoorsy youtube automatically registers as conservative republican, and increases the right wing/prageru propaganda significantly during the times I dont have adblock (When I used to use xbox to watch youtube on the big TV, I replaced it with an old laptop entirely to get adblocking running)

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