thank God for YouTube premium best $139 a year ever.
YouTube viewers watching on TVs may soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on its television app.
The change means some ads that previously allowed users to skip after a few seconds will instead run the full half-minute with no option to bypass them except for subscribing to YouTube Premium.
According to Google, the update is aimed specifically at YouTube's TV experience, where viewing habits more closely resemble traditional television. Google says the longer ad format is designed to help advertisers reach audiences who are watching content in a more relaxed, living-room setting.
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MayauMiao
Member
Me too, lots to learn to the point I actually can fix problems from LED backlight repair to cooking great meals. Watching restoration videos can be quite therapeutic to me as I'm addicted to watching amazing repairs.
I would rather spent time watching videos such as this than paying Netflix (which I already stop long ago).
MayauMiao
Member
Its worse than old TV days because some of the ads can last as long as a short drama.
I encounter a few ads that lasted almost 10 minutes unless I skip, ridiculous.
sorry to say but some of those are fake
MayauMiao
Member
Any proof? I would avoid it if someone can prove it.
some videos on the subject
not saying that one is but a lot of fake ones have thumb Nails just like that.
just be careful out there.
MayauMiao
Member
I know those videos are fake but you need to find me show me proof that RestoFix is one of them.
okay it looks like I was wrong it looks pretty real to me just a thumbnail scared me.
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
Would you be interested in health insurance?
MayauMiao
Member
I would abandon RestoFix if it turns out he was faking it too so for now he seems legit until proven otherwise.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Google is quite literally a weapons dealer profiting by selling to both sides of the conflict lmao
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epicurius-seven
Member
I'm guessing the more frequent 10 sec 'experiencing interruptions?' I see occasionally is my adblocker at work.
EverydayBeast
ChatShitGPT Alpha 0.001
YouTube ads will become unskippable
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/youtube-ads-will-become-unskippable.1694469/#reply
newtypepilot
Member
ad block exists, people
Cyberpunkd
Banned
Family has almost stopped watching YouTube on a TV, there are quite a lot apps in France with kids programming, ad free. Fuck Google.
Senua
Member
You're getting gyped, mate
Major Insano
Member
Does ad block work on smart tv though?
What's even worse is that so many of the ads now are AI scams for fake products.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Yeah, and anyway, who the heck buys stuff based on ads anyway. I don't remember any TV ad influencing my buying choices in decades. Random pop-ups or forced ads on the internet I barely pay any attention to, especially since everyone started using cheesy "inspirational" music in their ads.
ForAcademicPurposes
Member
What do you expect from a you know who. They'd tax the air that you breathe if they could, homie.
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deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
As an app, for sure. But content is another level - it's not fair to compare, but hey, I did this change way back in the day and never left. Hearing Megaman muusic on the gym is amazing
YCoCg
Member
SmartTube TV
Senua
Member
Yea or YouTube adblocker on webos homebrew for LG tvs
Hari Seldon
Gold Member
AI has killed general YouTube watching on a TV for me. Now I just stick to 1-2 channels on my PC only.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
- find videos i want to watch later
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- load onto plex server
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yt-dlp- load onto plex server
spookyfish
Gold Member
As one who has YTTV — doesn't matter. You still get the ads.
ContrarianAsshole
Banned
It's only ever going to get worse. Youtube needs to continually make more and more money, and they can't do that by growing their base since it reached saturation. If you thought unskipable adds every 7-8 minutes were bad, wait for the update where you need to keep your front camera on while you watch the video, logging every eye movement and emotion.
Haint
Member
Guess I've been in some kind of trial/test program for this? I've had unskippable 30+ second ads for like half a year at this point. It's an unskippable full 30 second one, followed by another 30 seconds of ads it makes you watch 5 or 10 seconds of then unlocks the skip button. So in total it forces you to watch at least 45 seconds of ads.
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StreetsofBeige
Member
I was using a combo of Adguard and Sponsorblock, but past bunch of days ads started popping up before the video starts. I installed Ublock Origin Lite and so far working well.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I'm still able to skip ads, but I've noticed on Chrome only(so far) I have ublock origin lite installed and before every video it takes like 10 seconds for the video to load and I get that "Experiencing interruptions?" message at the bottom. I'm 99% sure it's related to ublock origin skipping the ads.
falconhoof
Member
It's funny you say that. I never click on restoration videos that use that style of thumbnail as it became a signal of fake to me.
No idea about the channel in question.
winjer
Member
I'm using Brave and Ublock Origin 1.7.1b and it works flawlessly.
Try changing browser.
nkarafo
Member
I have this issue on Firefox + uBlock for many months now. I use a filter to remove the interruptions message because it would pop all the time.
How did you update to 1.7.1b? I'm on 1.7.0 and Firefox says there are no updates for my addons.
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winjer
Member
Releases · gorhill/uBlock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlock
github.com
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
It doesn't do it on Firefox for me and I use that mainly anyway. But I do use a secondary browser throughout the week and Youtube is a mess with ublock lite.