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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And it's worse for users without ad block. Google is just making YouTube worse. My gf got a 53 minute ad the other day... It looked like it was going to be an entire presentation from that company, I don't remember which because we obviously skipped it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s been around for a while now. Pretty sure the length on skippable ads can be significantly longer than unskippables. I remember once getting the entirety of the Lego movie as an ad once as part of the marketing for the sequel.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Strange... I don't feel any delays.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I watch YouTube in two places, one with ad blocking and one without. The five seconds my browser takes to start the video on the ad blocked version is a small price to pay. I routinely get 20 and 25 second unstoppable ads, so waiting 5 at the very start is no big deal.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'll admit that I've started watching youtube videos via filtering anonymisers so they really have no idea what I'm watching ¯_(ツ)_/¯ makes little difference to me, probably makes a small difference to the content creators but I ain't watching no ads and I ain't giving Google tracking data

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Teach me your ways, wise man.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    lol. There are a couple of options that don't suck.

    I started with freetube - https://freetubeapp.io/ - it's a decent cross platform client.

    https://invidious.io is pretty cool

    But I like an app, and since I'm in the Apple ecosystem I'm currently playing with Play on all my devices - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/play-save-videos-watch-later/id1596506190 It allows you to stack videos for later viewing, categorize them and then play them back via Invidious

    I'm also looking at running my own Invidious server

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    They've been pretty open about it, what with their "We don't allow ad blockers" pop ups

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm a little confused about this. Apparently they know who is doing ad blocking, so why the hell would they do a delay instead of the annoying popup saying to fuck off with the ad block?

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