Anyone fed up of how many ads YouTube is giving?

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zxlyve@reddit

if i see that god forbidden lucozade bring the energy advert one more time i’m never watching youtube again

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It's hideous when I watch it on devices outside of my control. The casino ads. The blatantly AI narrated ads. The AI assistant ads. The shit mobile game ads. That scratchy-voiced harpy that narrates the dominos adverts.

Which model of TV is that?

That Monza ad is the worst

"You're a life saver...I'll Monzo you right away". His voice is like nails down a blackboard

He's buys packet of crisps or some shit.

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officeja@reddit

Some ads shouldn’t be allowed at all, I seen one of a video of musk and clearly an AI voice saying he created an amazing investment system and there was limited places. Like it was all fake, I’m shocked that YouTube allows this but I guess all they care about is getting cheques

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ChipCob1@reddit

I work from home and recently (last two months I'd say) I've started getting ads from suppliers I work with on my TV.

I'm sure it used to be based mainly on my YouTube viewing history rather than my entire network traffic.

It's really annoying to not be able to relax in a yt rabbit hole and forget about work!

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InfectedFrenulum@reddit

I HATE the way the narrator on the Domino's ad says the word 'quid'

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Felrathror86@reddit

Reminds me of this waiter at a pizza place in Manchester who said "Pizzas take about 50 miiiiins"

So not only "mins" being weird but elongating the i for no reason.

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MrlemonA@reddit

50 minuets for a pizza is ridiculous lol

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Felrathror86@reddit

It was a deep dish type one, basically what the place was there for. Tasty!

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MrlemonA@reddit

I'm not waiting 50 mins for ANY meal in a restaurant, that's wild.

Reasonable_Blood6959@reddit

My most hated advert is the shitty cringy Luton Express rap.

ColonelCustard__@reddit

I cannot reach the mute button fast enough when that shite comes on

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Unable-Rip-1274@reddit

The Chase Bank one annoys me for some reason. The way she says “and his?” towards the end particularly grates on me.

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trusted-advisor-88@reddit

Bloody paddy power ads are doing my head in when I watch on my phone. Someone needs to come up with a mobile adblock or something.

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Cookyy2k@reddit

The casino ads

You cam turn gambling ads off in your Google account. You still get ads but at least it won't be them.

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keremsted@reddit

I used the Youtube app on my PS5 and nearly threw the controller after the third unskippable ad

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CareBearCartel@reddit

I have a rule. If your shitty product/service/show/other interrupts something I'm watching you're on my shortlist of thing's I'm not going to use.

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GatorShinsDev@reddit

I got some ad with an obviously AI doctored video of Jeremy Clarkson trying to sell some shady crypto scheme or something. They're so fussed about the content users upload but don't seem arsed about ads. I've blocked so many casino ads and more appear. Getting to the point that I just plug my Surface into the TV and watch on there with adblock

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RainbowPenguin1000@reddit

If you go to your Google account settings you can influence the adverts you see. I did this to turn off the persistent casino ads:

I'm not interested in any of this shit.

Oh they know that. Thats why they are trying to make youtube so obnoxious and ad-riddled, that it ramps up the revenue from YouTube Premium.

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Medical_Band_1556@reddit

Yeah it's like they're punishing us, but we still didn't have to see the ad so fuck you YouTube

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Heathcliff511@reddit

Like how the govt has been cracking down on piracy for, what, 35 years? You're not sure because they literally can do nothing but temporarily workaround or try and prevent people getting adblockers (which they cant control on non Chromium web browsers). To that extent, they'll never block people using these alternative browsers because they'd rather have some ad revenue rather than none.

Alphabet brings in more money annually than most nations nominal GDPs, if there was a legal way to do it by now they would have.

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laredocronk@reddit

People have been saying that ever since the first adblockers were released, and yet here we are decades later.

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SilverRapid@reddit

It'll just be a constant cat and mouse. At the moment YouTube sends a playlist of ads and the ad blockers simply delete the playlist. YouTube keeps hiding the ad playlist in various ways and the blockers keep figuring it out. Next YouTube is testing sending the ad video in the same stream as the video you are watching. The ad block solution is to buffer ahead the video and fast forward it so YouTube is trying to counter that and so on.

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bluesam3@reddit

Going to be hard: Sponsor block can already block bits of the actual video.

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143Emanate34Elaborat@reddit

For Chromium-based browsers.

Ohh I see

So on pc

Open chrome

Choose the chromecast option but don't share the tab, share full screen

Then on pc can share the full screen as long as you leave chrome open

So then use Firefox or whatever for youtube

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throwaway928816@reddit

I'm very confused why you guys keep talking about chromecast... I've tried librefox and I like it but it doesnt support the android platform. I want an app that supports both windows and android. I dont want to chromcast anything!!!

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UnchartedPro@reddit

Sorry - I think I confused you with a different user and then misinterpreted what you said! My apologies m8

So you want a browser that works on android and Windows?

For windows I think for the average user like myself Firefox is very hard to beat. Decent settings and good extensions - the best being ublock

For android, if you want to watch something on a website that you know will have problematic ads, Firefox and ublock still works fine but I don't like using it as much

I'm a big Samsung Internet guy on android over using Google chrome but the ad blockers aren't as good as ublock

For ad free YouTube on mobile instead of going through the Web, YouTube revanced is an app worth getting in my opinion

Can also mess with the phones settings to open links by default in revanced so it becomes more seamless

SynthRogue@reddit

Yes but they've made the youtube website feed/main page lame. They restrict videos heavily and after scrolling just a little, you hit the end of the feed and have to manually refresh. And refreshing shows you the same few videos but in a different order.

The mobile app on the other hand, shows a far greater variety of videos in the feed and you can scroll for a long time before hitting the end, if you even do get to the end.

Sufficient_Emu_9777@reddit

Yup. It’s getting ridiculous at this point.

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101Spacecase@reddit

Yes I came here to post just this. I've had to turn on Adblock. Sometimes I have to pause a show etc. Then when you start watching again you are hit with more Ad's.....When the video gets to the critical part or most watched part...More Ad's. Use to be you could watch the two 15 sec Ad's an then you was good for 20 min or so. That seems to have went out the window. So yeah I use to watch the Ad's to support the creator, but just not feasible now. I suggest we all run Adblock until they revert.

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ArshzzZ@reddit

(Rant)

Spotify and youtube have been bullying me to buy their subscription my 3 ads in the start 2 ads in the middle for most of the vids i watch and spotify plays ads after every music i listen i am so f** angry about this

I crumbled and got YouTube Premium a couple of months ago, it's worth it in my opinion.

If you're paying for Spotify/Apple Music you can cancel that to cover the cost; you get YouTube Music included which is just as good.

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darthmarmite@reddit

Gotta disagree here. YT premium is £16.99 a month. That’s over £200 a year just to not have lengthy ads shoved in my face for crappy mobile games, ai, Amazon and others. In my opinion, that’s a disproportionate amount of money.

I get that they include YT Music… great… but I don’t want that, I want to use Spotify. Can I get YT premium without Music? No. So if I want to watch videos without ads, I have to also buy a subscription for an unrelated, separate service that I don’t want or need?

They also have tried to add further features like background play and picture-in-picture to premium but every other video/streaming app I know of has these as standard features. So they’ve locked easily implemented convenience features behind the paywall, making the user experience worse, to further try and justify the cost.

A lot of people saying that they got it and now won’t go back because it’s worth it. Personally, I think the thing here isn’t that premium is “worth it” but rather that they made the free user experience so poor that many people don’t want to go back to it.

If they brought out a YT Core subscription that just gave you no ads and background play for £6-£8 a month, I’d go for it immediately. But over £200 a year, just for you to not throw repeated ads in my face? Nope.

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Frost_Sea@reddit

but youtube, does have high quality content, documentaries, there even entire series anjd movies uploaded there now, you can use it for tutorials, language learning, education.

Its far more valuable than netflix or disney or appletv from the sheer amount of content on it.

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Complex-You-4383@reddit

I pay £4 a month for YouTube premium, the trick is to get a family account between you and four friends and it’s £20 a month, you can have your account on I think 5 devices, so it’s a win win.

Been doing this for three years now.

I think that is a ridiculously entitled argument but you do you!

100% agreed with you there, my problem is with people that don't want to pay anything but still cry about too many ads.

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Broccoli--Enthusiast@reddit

Its £12.99, £155 a year

Cheaper than the TV licence and far more entertaining than any shite on the BBC

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spartan0746@reddit

YouTube Premium Lite is now in the UK, just means they show ads for music which isn’t an issue for me. But much cheaper otherwise.

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Broccoli--Enthusiast@reddit

Ooh last I checked it wasn't in UK yet

I might actually go back to Spotify for a bit and see what the difference is.

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darthmarmite@reddit

Agree on the entertaining bit. Another commenter mentioned that the £16.99 I’ve been quoted is higher as it’s via the YT app which increases the cost to cover Apple’s cut.

Agree on more entertaining than a lot of stuff on the BBC. My issue is that it’s bundled with things like YT Music. So whatever the price, I’m being forced to pay for a separate subscription I don’t need too.

Remove that, don’t force me to pay for a music streaming subscription and just give me a lower price point for just YouTube without ads and background play/pip.

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benDB9@reddit

It’s £12.99 a month if you subscribe via YouTube directly. Apple slap on an extra £4 if you download it via their App Store.

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spartan0746@reddit

YouTube Premium Lite is now in the UK, just means they show ads for music which isn’t an issue for me. But much cheaper otherwise.

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SpudFire@reddit

Costs about £3 a month if you 'move' to Kazakhstan.

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darthmarmite@reddit

Didn’t know that, thanks for correcting, that does bring it down a bit then which is good.

The thing is that it still includes YT Music etc. which I simply don’t want.

I don’t want to be watching it without ads for free, but I do want a lower price point just for YouTube ads & background play/PIP without other things bundled in.

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acarine-@reddit

You can also just use a vpn to subscribe and get it far cheaper

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Andy_Roid@reddit

Get the family plan and go halves with someone else

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MexicanPenguinii@reddit

On Android, revanced gets you all that shit for free

Both videos and music

I actually use the mini player and background a lot surprisingly, if I couldn't get this I would maybe be paying

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Substantial_Pilot699@reddit

I don't feel that's the strategy. They seem to be increasing the amount and duration of ads to push people onto premium.

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Substantial_Pilot699@reddit

Exactly what I've done. Cancelled Spotify and moved to YouTube.

I watch nearly all my YouTube videos on the Tv at home and I got a free month trial and it had never really occurred to me how many ads I’d been watching until they stopped! I decided to carry on with paying for it and I honestly don’t regret it.

Is it a tad on the expensive side? Absolutely. Is it worth it, absolutely.

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AngryGardenGnomes@reddit

I got a VPN and set it to Albania. Way cheaper.

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mongolian_monke@reddit

hell naw. just get an adblocker, the Revanced APK if you have an Android, or SmartTube if you have a TV that supports apps.

Yeah I will literally just get the same 5 videos I don't watch to watch suggested back to back to back and nothing else

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TheNewHobbes@reddit

Same here, my feed seems to be 30% stuff I've watched before, 50% stuff which has been cropping up for months, if I haven't watched it by now I never will and 20% new stuff, only some of which looks interesting.

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JudasBC@reddit

Recently it has been dredging up a load of old content I know I have already watched, but burying anything new outside of about 6 creators I'm subscribed to. I'm as likely to see a video with 18 views on some random subject as I am something new from a subscribed channel outside my top ones.

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brockford-junktion@reddit

It sucks being on the other side of it too. I have a normal people job and have no interest in trying to make money off it but it'd be nice to have the stuff I do put on get shown to people.

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just_burn_it_all@reddit

Sadly ad optimisation is Googles bread and butter. If they can get another round of revenue by showing you content you already watched, theyll do that rather than show you new stuff from a small content creator you subscribed to

It's just brutal for niche channels, especially those who are never going to get heaps of subscribers.

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Imaginary-Friend-228@reddit

Yeah my feed tries to hard to decide that I only want to watch one topic. I watched one thing about Pokemon and now it won't recommend anything else

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TeHNeutral@reddit

Yeah it does seem to have an immense case of tunnel vision these days

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Fina1Legacy@reddit

Can't go wrong with a Wolfey wideo

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---x__x---@reddit

I have LOADS of gripes about youtube but it's actually the one site where the algorithm seems consistently good for me.

It seems to recommend things I want to watch based on if I'm using my computer / phone / TV and taking into account what time of day it is.

No one, but no one needs YouTube either

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Questjon@reddit

The electricity use alone of watching 4K video for an hour is the equivalent of driving a mile or two in an EV.

Maybe running a whole server yeah but that's split between 10,000 concurrent users. YouTube had $50Billion in revenue from ads and subs last year, they don't reveal their operating costs so it's hard to work out profit but Netflix put their distribution costs at $0.12-$0.75 per user per month.

Apfel@reddit

Seconding this. I absolutely love my premium sub and it feels free as YouTube music works as a perfect Spotify replacement.

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woods60@reddit (OP)

The search barely even work. In 2016 I could search for a specific internet reference and it would show. Now it’s so algorithm-based that it makes you reliant on recommendations rather than search.

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red_nick@reddit

Google manager:

Hmm, do you know what people want to see when they search for something?

Engineer:

Results for their search?

Managers:

Well yes for about 3 or 4. Then they want to see results that don't match their search!

Engineer:

...

Not really because I have vinegar

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Impressive-Smell-299@reddit

Yes! It’s sooooooooo bad

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Scary-Zucchini-1750@reddit

Yeah I know, I did wonder if I shouldn't share it 😂

Do you have a music subscription like Apple music or Spotify?

jabbo13@reddit

Buy VPN Set to India Go on YouTube Buy premium for 12 quid for the year No ads

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woods60@reddit (OP)

Im on iOS so im using brave now

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RainbowPenguin1000@reddit

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DiverseUniverse24@reddit

Love me some adblock. Will never go back.

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Familiar_Ad6302@reddit

Use brave browser

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This is one of the reasons why the internet as we know it cannot last. And I for one won't shed a tear at its funeral.

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bookfrombox@reddit

It's called enshititification.

It's only going to get a lot worse.

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Whisky_Delta@reddit

Oh absolutely. “Your car has ABS but its subscription based. “

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DanielReddit26@reddit

I believe this is already a thing with some cars (not ABS) where the hardware for something (heated seats I think...) is installed to the car but if you don't pay the extra they don't turn the software on to make it work.

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HauntingDay31@reddit

Yep, I was hoping this would get brought up. BMW were making cars that came with heated seats built in, but you have to pay a subscription fee to activate them.

Pure money grabbing tactic right there.

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DanielReddit26@reddit

It does sound a bit mental from the outside! I guess it's more efficient for them to build them as standard as opposed to based off order or whatever but yeah it all sounds fairly crass.

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Electronic_Tap_6260@reddit

yup - GPUs and CPUs are the same. Whatever the "high end" chip of a series is, the entire series is that, but they just disable half the shit because it's cheaper to have one fabrication plant making one thing, than 10 different things.

also because CPUs and GPUs are ripoffs for what they are.

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audigex@reddit

yup - GPUs and CPUs are the same. Whatever the "high end" chip of a series is, the entire series is that

This is just straight up false

There is a grain of truth to it, but not even close to the way you describe

The reality is that they'll make eg an 8 core CPU and a percentage of them will have a failure or shortcoming in the manufacturing process, so they'll disable a core or two, or lower the frequency, or some of the RAM, and sell it as a lower SKU

But that's not even close to the same as the idea that their entire range is just one product with some things disabled in the firmware

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Electronic_Tap_6260@reddit

This is just straight up false

There is a grain of truth to it,

pick one.

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audigex@reddit

They are not mutually exclusive statements

What you said is not true

There is something else that happens which is slightly similar in concept but implemented completely differently

“A grain of truth” refers to the slightly similarity in concept, but doesn’t make the rest of your claim correct just because it’s tangentially related to reality

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HauntingDay31@reddit

Thing is, I'm not sure it worked out that way for them, they discontinued the practice.

It's just the initial slap in the face, to know your car already has the hardware, but you can't use it without paying more than you already have.

Why would I pay more for something that's realistically, completely unnecessary? Air-conditioning solves the problem on its own, and there's no sub for that.

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Tractorface123@reddit

In 10-20 years when these cars are cheaper 2nd hand woukd it be difficult to just wire in a switch to power them directly? Like how when a modern cars been in a crash and you need to power the seat motor to move it back

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HauntingDay31@reddit

That's a cheeky idea and I like it 🤣 I'm no expert, but I'd imagine if you could locate the cable connecting them, you could probably find a way to bypass the system.

But given this is a German car maker, I can imagine they implemented something to prevent this.

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Tractorface123@reddit

More than likely is a way to prevent it but at the end of the day the basic components will still be there just got to go directly into those instead of through anything software controlled, BMW probably aren’t expecting the first owners to do this though, I’m thinking of the used market, though if this idea becomes mainstream other manufacturers might try to prevent it as well.

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Muscle_Bitch@reddit

This was an experiment they ran were they allowed people to either spec heated seats as a factory option (£350) or subscribe for £15 a month to allow flexibility to only use it in the colder months.

There was an immense backlash, they dropped it immediately.

Their only subscriptions now are for software features that require constant connection, which obviously comes at an ongoing cost to them to maintain.

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TopSetLowlife@reddit

No joke, new VW's you have to pay a monthly subscription for Aircon, inner lighting and seat warmers if my mate isn't bullshitting me.

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Muscle_Bitch@reddit

Your mate is bullshitting you.

My brand new Tiguan comes with heated, ventilated and massage seats, air con and interior lighting, and I don't pay any subscription to VW.

There is a subscription for some app that allows the interior lighting to react to your music or display "interactive alerts" when your phone is ringing or you put on your hazards.

It's £1.69 a month, you'd need to be a total mug to pay for it.

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TopSetLowlife@reddit

Well that gives me hope

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audigex@reddit

if my mate isn't bullshitting me

Aircon, no.

A few other things (including heated seats, I'm not sure about interior lighting) are available on their "VW Connect" subscriptions, but you can also just buy them up front when you buy the car like you've always been able to

I don't have a problem with it when it's an option rather than the only way to get those features

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bookfrombox@reddit

Didn't VW come out with that. Basically it was cheaper for them to basically make all cars have all the bells and whistles, instead of making different trims.

So all cars have the top trim, but unless you paid the systems weren't activated. So like you have a reversing camera installed, but if you didn't pay for it then it just wouldn't be turned on.

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Zak_Rahman@reddit

No need to make up words.

It's called capitalism.

Without limits, it is unsustainable and destroys everything it touches. This is why money should never be god.

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bookfrombox@reddit

Go home Jeremy. You're drunk.

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Zak_Rahman@reddit

Just say "i agree".

Do tell how they can sustain it if not for ads and/or premium subscription? One 1 second ad per video? $0.25 premium subscription per month?

Just so they can keep you happy when there are plenty of people paying full price for the monthly sub?

Lol at point 5. Worked well with Netflix, right?

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szank@reddit

Make more expensive pair-tier
Start showing adds on the least expensive paid tier still.

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gorilla-balls17@reddit

Genuinely, how much money should Google lose on YouTube hosting billions of hours of video and paying millions of people to create content for the website?

It's for people who have their stuff on auto play - the company pays Google a small amount to do this - 99.99% of people will realise it's an ad and skip but the ones that dont (just on dumb autoplay with their mouth open as they breathe) end up watching it all and get invested in whatever the fuck it's on about - and then spend money.

Basically it's targeted at the people who are so stupid they will watch a 1 hour ad without realising.

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simmokare2866@reddit

Yup Takes ages for the skip button to come up 😐

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steak_bake_surprise@reddit

Recently my experience is:

I click to watch a 20min video

25s ad

Watch around 3mins, skip 5mins, play

60s ad (less ads for this longer video)

Watch 3mins, skip a few more minutes, watch a few minutes

60s ad (less ads for this longer video)

Turn off

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blackmoonsun@reddit

Adblocker get with the times

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Theo_C_Cupier@reddit

The default experience has an insane level of enshittification and is near unusable. I appreciate the need for ads and revenue but too much has changed. The removal of the like button, rampant copyright fraud, promotion of videos that get views no matter if the content is dangerous or misleading.

I ran a YouTube channel for 15 years and it's a vastly different platform to the way it used to be.

It was nothing huge, a few thousand subs and lots of views but I've removed my support for the platform by setting the videos to private and abandoning it.

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Zealousideal-Ad9280@reddit

Honestly its a joke, especially the frequency of long ass ads (I'm looking at you Manscaped, Mous etc)

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£2 for YT premium from Turkey more than worth it as I can't block ads on TV.

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Nice_Put4300@reddit

No I love it. I love watching a video for 30 seconds in 5 second advert to appear, for then 4 minutes later 50 seconds of adverts come, with the promise of ‘less adverts if you watch these’ then I skip the first and the rest are un skippable. Finish that for another 5 minutes of enjoyment to be met with an advert at the end of the video.

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dahid@reddit

No, I use ad blocker haven't seen them in a long time

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Pinecontion@reddit

Hate youtube ads with a passion. They’re the worst ads in the world too.

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KatieThrowawayAcct@reddit

As a Gen Z, I watch YouTube every single day and fall asleep to it every night. That being said, it took me embarrassingly long to buy YouTube Premium - But god it was so worth it. I was spending probs £90+ on subscriptions for about every individual streaming app going, I don't know why I never got it for YouTube.

They seem to vary depending on device I'm using. Mobile and desktop I can just about stomach because it's not often they're much more than 5 seconds or skippable.

Amazon though....I use the firestick sometimes and its just the worst. 20-30-60 second ads that you can "fast forward" after 30 seconds then wait again and THEN skip the last 5 seconds. It's absolutely atrocious. Truth be told I want to ditch the firestick but I can't seem to get Google TV to work in my house and I'm not getting Sky back as long as I live.

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djwilliams100@reddit

Can't remember the last time I saw an ad on YouTube.

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LambonaHam@reddit

A couple of channels that I watch now have an add every 200 seconds.

It's ridiculous. I've actually stopped watching them because of it.

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NoAvocadoMeSad@reddit

Yep, it's getting worse and worse as time goes on

I keep getting "longer ads so you can watch the video with fewer ad breaks" and it gives me a minute long ad... Usually 5 minutes later it does exactly the same.

I refuse to pay for premium even though it would be good value for me.. purely because of how hard they're trying to push it by punishing those who don't have it.

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AppealConfident1303@reddit

My dream would be a mass mobilization against ads, basically, the mass somehow agree to stop buying advertised products in a way that the companis would be able to see this effect. I know is impossible (targeted ads, bla bla), but let me dream ok! Would be so cool tho

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SodaCanSuperman@reddit

I watched a video on my phone the other day while I was at work. I genuinely feel like there were about 10 ad breaks in one 40 minute video, each with two unskippable 30 second+ adverts. Was driving me insane, way too much and is ruining the experience. Thank god for ad blocker on my pc.

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woods60@reddit (OP)

I underestimate how much of this sub uses PC for YouTube. All the comments mention adblockers and techy things etc personally I thought the average YouTube user is on mobile

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SodaCanSuperman@reddit

To be honest I watch on my phone more but that's because I have it playing in the background while doing other things at work, doing chores at home etc. I also watch YouTube on my phone when relaxing on the couch or before bed sometimes. PC is my preferred platform but that's only when I'm actively watching something on YouTube sat at my PC or when again it's playing while I'm doing hobby stuff in my home office room.

Adblockers are the way but not possible if you're using the official app.

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rocketdog67@reddit

Ended up paying for family premium. They’d all lynch me if I cancelled it.

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theblackwhisper@reddit

It’s atrocious. Halfway up a makeshift lander, holding onto a light fitting with one hand, just need to watch a quick ten second video on which wire to connect. 30 second advert begins. Dread to think of the day you need to watch one on how to save a life.

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G0oose@reddit

Yep, the whole internet is a shit show these days, such a disappointment from when I was younger 20 years ago, it was this amazing thing where passionate people made websites because they loved it.

Now it’s been taken over by google, ads on everything, people paid on the sly and lying through their teeth for clicks.

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fluffy_samoyed@reddit

I have Premium, but the amount that they still try to sneak in is frustrating. For instance, a lot of the videos in my home feed will have adverts for products under them in the mobile ap with no option to hide them. They will often try to disguise an ad as a YouTube feature as well, which sits pretty at the top of the page. They removed the advance buttons on mobile to make it more difficult to skip over the baked in sponsor ads. They claimed to have made a feature that will bookmark the end of these for you to jump to instead, but months later, I've yet to see it actually implemented in any video I watch. And it's not as if I'm watching obscure, niche content.

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dannydrama@reddit

Nah because it's the only platform worth me paying for with no fucking around with revanced etc.

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stbens@reddit

I watch YouTube on my TV so can’t install ad blockers. I caved in and subscribed to Premium and haven’t regretted it.

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keithitreal@reddit

Pains me to say that I've ended up paying for it now.

They started to get worse to it and require the payment method being based in that country. Used to be okay with revolut and virtual cards as it would circumvent it.

'If you have a baby that's choking you need to act immediately and carefully first locate the sternum using... Have you taken out car finance between 2005 and 2020 if so you could be owed thousands..' 56 seconds later

Aaaaand the baby is dead

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Eryeahmaybeok@reddit

The Ad quality is horrendous.

'WHY AIN'T EVERVRYWUN GOT SOLAAAAH PANELS'

'Did you have car finance in xxx....'

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Fit_Importance_5738@reddit

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trevpr1@reddit

I block the ads. On my PC I run uBlock origin in Firefox and on my phone I use Duck Player, which comes along with the Duck Duck Go browser.

On those occasions when I feel like watchingYou Tube on my big telly I hook up one of my PCs via a HDMI cable.

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DangerousCap2473@reddit

If you are viewing YouTube

in browser, use uBlock Origin, AdGuard AdBlock, AdBlock, and AdBlock Plus.
in an Android phone, install YouTube through Revanced Manager.
in iPhone, install some adblockers AdGuard AdBlock and AdBlock Plus, both for Safari, from the App Store and view YouTube from the Safari browser instead of the official YouTube app.

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FlamingBearAttack@reddit

Yeah, I thought this earlier too. Noticed that I was getting served adverts every few minutes on a documentary I was watching. Also, the most common advert was the Lucozade one with the annoying "lemme see you rock off" song.

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HerpaDerpaDumDum@reddit

MFW I, a Firefox/uBlock Origin user, see the non-adblocking peasants complain about ads.

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Matharis@reddit

Only ever see ads that the podcaster\documentarian is shilling, even then it sometimes gets skipped.

Firefox browser, with ublock origin, no script extensions for pc and RVX (forked branch of the revanced app) for mobile.

Haven't seen a YouTube ad in over a decade.

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theworldsaplayground@reddit

Haaa, people get ads. Lol

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IhaveaDoberman@reddit

No.

If anything I'd say ads are less annoying than they were a year or two ago, or however long it was they first introduced the unskipable ones and then the double unskipable ones.

Pretty much all ads I get I can skip in a few seconds. And the frequency doesn't seem like it's at it's worst point either. Granted, just getting used to it as I refuse to get premium, could play a factor.

But also, don't forget, how the channels choose to monetise still plays a part. So if that isn't your experience, that you're actually getting a lot of them and they are very disruptive. It may be who you choose to watch is just trying to milk the videos for cash, rather than actually producimg good content.

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BigBadAl@reddit

Can you suggest a way YouTube can pay for their massive amount of servers and bandwidth, and pay their contributors, and still provide free videos for billions of people?

You could subscribe to YouTube premium.

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First-Relative8274@reddit

Download the Brave browser and watch YouTube on a browser. Zero ads.

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ItsDominare@reddit

the people behind Brave got caught inserting affiliate links into people's searches, god knows what else they're up to

Ehh if it supporting creators I like then I’m fine with it.

YouTube's monetisation program is shit. For example, 1 million views gets you about £1,000 on average. 1 million views.

It's 10x better to support creators through a membership or patreon.

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ehsteve23@reddit

I have YouTube premium or whatever it’s called.

It expired, and i was presented with YouTube ads again. Took less than half an hour for me to renew.

I can’t fucking deal with the amount of ads on everything now, and yes i will pay to make them go away if i can

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joejawsome1@reddit

Oh my god the level just started and we’re already getting over run? I gotta take this guys out and build a crossbow tower real quick, I don’t even think I have a choice.

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96JY@reddit

Firefox with uBlock Origin.

You'll never get another ad again!

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volster@reddit

don't forget sponsorblock too!

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Oooch@reddit

And DeArrow to get rid of shitty clickbait images with shocked faces and swaps them out with either a random frame from the video or a custom selected one by another DeArrow user!

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No-Conversation7037@reddit

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So glad I found you. So my ten year old Panasonic, how do I bypass ads?

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AskUK-ModTeam@reddit

Don't be a dick to each other, or other subreddits, places, or people.

The ads don't even make sense. I've never had car finance, but I'm bombarded by ads telling me I can get my money back. Those, or those adverts that are a full music video, always a genre of music I never listen to.

Whilst I know ads are annoying, spare a thought for just how mind boggling expensive it is to rub the data centres that are allowing billions of random people to upload and download video every second of every day. It's an engineering marvel if you really consider what's going on.

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Solace_18@reddit

I’m fed up of ads in general, the issue is I actually like ads to a degree finding new products etc, but the number of ads are ridiculous…

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371_idle_wit@reddit

No because i have slightly more money than sense and am paying £12.99 per month for the privilege of not being irritated every few minutes.

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simmokare2866@reddit

Yessss 👌

I had water pouring out of the side of my house last week

My garden was a swimming pool😬

I only wanted to know how to turn the water off and fix it

The advert in the middle of that video was really not wanted at that time🤬 Thankfully it was a quick fix for the plumber

I prob could of done it myself if the video hadn’t annoyed me so much 😂

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BedGirl5444@reddit

They’re getting way too smart in blocking the adblocks

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UniverseOfBass@reddit

The temu ads are pure dystopian cancer.

SHOP LIKE A BILLIONAIRE.

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Oooch@reddit

No because I've used adblock since about 2008

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PaulSpangle@reddit

I wouldn't mind if they were adverts for things I might buy but they're either advertising a) one-off purchases I've researched and already bought, or b) Sainsbury's

I've done my online shopping with Sainsbury's for as long as I can remember but I've recently switched to Waitrose because I got sick of every video I watched on YouTube being prefixed with that idiot exclaiming "Sainsbury's ? Are we made of money?!", followed by his sister saying something patronising to the camera.

Waitrose are great and their adverts are far less annoying.

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BearClaw4-20@reddit

Yeah it seems a lot these days, I've noticed certain channels seem to have longer ads or ads you can't skip, I wonder if the channel owner has a say in ad types or anything...

Side note, as well as the amount of ads going up the volume seems to have sky rocketed too! The ad is easily 5+ clicks up in volume to what the TV is set to.

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woods60@reddit (OP)

Yeah music has a lot of ads. And sky football highlights

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That_Designer7097@reddit

I let my YouTube Premium sub lapse a few weeks ago and started watching ads again for the first time in probably 5 years. I thought it was how it used to be with an unskippable ad or two in the beginning of a video but oh my actual fucking god dude in a 45 minute video I was getting 60 second ads EVERY 3 MINUTES.

I'm not even too sure of the quality of content. There's 3 channels I still watch, and that's only because they're to do with my 3 main hobbies.

Sometimes though, I'll get hit by an ad, and something in me just snaps, I close YouTube and completely forget about the vid I was watching.

It sucks for the creators that do make decent content, but I can't be expected to sit through this every time I want to check something out. Sometimes it feels like there's more time spent watching ads than actual content.

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woods60@reddit (OP)

Ahh okay it seems me and you are opposite. I’ve subscribed to over 10000 people and been watching since 2015, and I always used to search for random questions I had when I was younger, or topics I was interested in. But now that the search is bad I rely on recommendations which are poo

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indelible_inedible@reddit

I got fed up with it years ago. I now watch YouTube via browsers with ad blockers out the wazzoo. They had their chance to be fair with it: they took the piss instead.

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DieNamic3D@reddit

Brave browser + ublock never see ads anymore and it covers most sites for fingerprinting etc

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MrRedDoctor@reddit

Here's a hack: get yourself a VPN and set the location to Albania. No ads on YouTube in Albania.

Why not?

woods60@reddit (OP)

Weirdly seems to be bombarding me lately with a ridiculous amount of ads.

woods60@reddit (OP)

Uk electricity prices too high. I ain’t running no home server!!

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Paladin2019@reddit

Doesn't work for YouTube ads.

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AcreCryPious@reddit

Revanced for phone

Set VPN to Albania for the Chromecast/laptop

Ads gone

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woods60@reddit (OP)

What’s next? Hack NASA?

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Anthrophantasmus-@reddit

If I see/hear that "Quinn fell the floor..." AI shit ad one more time, I'm gonna lose it.

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autobulb@reddit

A lot of people are, which is why browser adblocking and modified apps are getting increasingly common to the point that Youtube is fighting back more and more. Now every time I watch a video on the browser the video takes an extra 3-4 seconds to load and there is a little banner that says I might be facing interruptions because of adblocking. I'd much rather wait the extra few seconds of the spinning wheel than annoying ads. The experience with modified APKs for Android is pretty much flawless though.

Every time I use a friend's or public device, or a new one before I get my adblockers installed, I am shocked by how many ads you have to go through just to watch a simple short video. It's to the point where if my adblockers ever stop working I would just quit using Youtube altogether, it's terrible. And paying for Premium doesn't even guarantee and ad free experience anymore either.

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Jazzlike_Quiet9941@reddit

No cause I pay premium 😔 it's worth it if you watch a lot

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scoschooo@reddit

Or just block the ads. Easy to do.

For me, the ads are only ok if I am listening to music and can skip them quickly. On my phone.

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No_Shine_4707@reddit

I pay premium. I get you tube music no adverts and ability to play in background and download for about 12 pounds a month. Not a bad deal rwally, much prefer to pay for youtube premium than netflix ir spotify. Honestly, only signed up for the free trial but it is game changing to have any youtube content in an insrant with no adverts.

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Kpowell911@reddit

Just buy Premium. Its so worth it. I spend more time watching youtube than TV these days

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I watch a lot of YouTube even for music because I like the videos or live performances. Honestly, Premium is worth every penny if you can afford it. Ad-Free YT is amazing.

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BambooSound@reddit

I'm so used to YouTube Premium now they've probably got me for life. Way better than Netflix.

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Electronic_Feed9114@reddit

Install Adblock Plus for free

As far as I'm aware it can only be downloaded for free on a laptop, so not ideal for TV viewing, but you can always cast it from your laptop, or plug it in direct

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BatChoice3106@reddit

All the ads are for scammy get rich quick fraudster courses.

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Interstellar-Metroid@reddit

It worse than watching standard television. I can't stand watching YouTube anymore, not without a ad blocker.

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Creative-Job7462@reddit

I didn't mind watching ads as it supports the creator. If I saw 3 unskippable ads, I would use the opportunity to go touch grass.

But recently they've been showing pornographic ads, and it's really awkward when you have the volume on max and everyone hears the PH tune in the living room.

This is my 1st month of YT ads.

Less painful than i imagined, and far fewer than i feared.

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shingaladaz@reddit

££££££££££££££$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$€€€€€€€€€€€

“WE WANT IT!!!!!!”

regards from every single thing on the planet.

spiritanimalslug1@reddit

i find if you click the refresh button top left of screen ( ctrl-r ) a couple of times the ad just ends and moves on to the next ad, do that 2 or three times you get to your video without having to watch any ads at all. ad blocker plus installed also never seen more than a few seconds of any ad on youtube.

no need for youtube premium, you know they'll be putting ads on that next.

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marlonoranges@reddit

Use the Brave browser

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ElusiveCrab@reddit

I got premium because youtubes my bedtime media and got sick of super loud ads going off. Used to just adblock but the cat&mouse game sucks

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seann__dj@reddit

This is why i pay for premium.

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GainsAndPastries@reddit

I have noticed more and more YouTubers having YouTube ads switched on but also their own ads in the video itself.

Not a fan of that at all.

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