discussion Youtube is doing too much with these ads (mobile)

[Gorjesspazze9]

18 minutes ago, chiliam said:

ads are annoying but you really should understand, content is not free, nothing is free.

They needs to make some types of money to pay content creator so they can create more content for us to enjoy.

 

So stop being cheap and just subcribe youtube premium (im currently use it for free cause a good friend share for me though)

If you broke then just tolerate those ads and stop complaining and expect everything should be free for you, no.

yes, just subscribe to another streaming service. that's what the Companies want you to do, while they make 45% off of all ads. just keep buying, that will solve our problems 

[thetea]

i stopped watching youtube videos so much because of how incessant the ads are. i refuse to pay for youtube premium because of how much they keep shoving it in my face as well as the fact that i can't even watch 1080p videos without a youtube premium subscription. 

[poki]

34 minutes ago, Katamari said:

Insurance, drugs, credit cards are trinity of ads in America  

Lately casino ads have had a lot of payola in my area. Those are the worst.

[sweetblindness]

I literally despise the YouTube app. The ads are so obnoxious, too!

[Taylena]

Get a VPN (a free one will do for this one time) and connect to the country of Turkey. Go to the subscribe to premium page and Youtube will present you with prices from Turkey - a premium subscription in Turkey is 29.99 Turkish Lira which is barely over 1 US Dollar or 1 Euro. That's it, you get Youtube premium for that low price and you don't need to do anything else. Some cards might not work tho, just get something like Revolut and you shouldn't have a problem to pay with that. 

[Windy Day]

1 hour ago, chiliam said:

ads are annoying but you really should understand, content is not free, nothing is free.

They needs to make some types of money to pay content creator so they can create more content for us to enjoy.

 

So stop being cheap and just subcribe youtube premium (im currently use it for free cause a good friend share for me though)

If you broke then just tolerate those ads and stop complaining and expect everything should be free for you, no.

this is honestly a terrifying take and mindset

 

yall are just begging for late stage capitalism to end us all at this point 

[Into The Void]

The ads are ridiculous and its 2-3 for a 2 min video and now if a video is like 10 minutes there's ads between the video it needs to stop

[SapphireSky]

If you have a android search YouTube revanced 

[glitch]

Now youtube is rolling out an adblock detector on desktop too. I got a notification saying after 3 videos video playback would be stopped unless I disabled my adblocker. Sick of these *******

[glitch]

4 hours ago, chiliam said:

ads are annoying but you really should understand, content is not free, nothing is free.

They needs to make some types of money to pay content creator so they can create more content for us to enjoy.

 

So stop being cheap and just subcribe youtube premium (im currently use it for free cause a good friend share for me though)

If you broke then just tolerate those ads and stop complaining and expect everything should be free for you, no.

There's nothing wrong with ads in principle but the reason people started using adblockers is the sheer number of ads that people shove on websites now. There are some websites that practically break when I'm on mobile because they're just littered with ads and pop ups. Adblocker is the only way to make these websites useable. Plus youtube puts far too many adverts into a single video which disrupts the viewing experience. One or two at the start would be one thing, but multiple throughout the video is just ridiculous. 

[Pop Life]

YouTube has been in business for over a decade and did just fine without resorting to aggressive monetization like they do now. If you honestly believe the poor widdle 30 billion dollar mega-corporation can't keep the lights on without your help, then that's your delusion. I personally refuse to pay for something I used to get for free

Edited August 30, 2023 by Pop Life

[Cain]

8 hours ago, GentleEarthquake said:

Spotify too, i'm getting tired, and don't tell me to buy premium, i can't

You use free Spotify? Isn’t that literally unusable? I remember you couldn’t even chose what song you wanted to play ff

[Illuminati]

5 hours ago, Cain said:

You use free Spotify? Isn’t that literally unusable? I remember you couldn’t even chose what song you wanted to play ff

It works really well on desktop actually, it's possible to disable all ads. But the phone app is unusable, if that's what they're using.

 

OT: I don't use Youtube on mobile but I have used it on my smart TV and it was so aggressively bad, like I was just trying to play some music and I would get two ads after every song, with one of the ads always being longer than the song/video itself

Edited August 30, 2023 by Illuminati

[GentleEarthquake]

10 hours ago, Cain said:

You use free Spotify? Isn’t that literally unusable? I remember you couldn’t even chose what song you wanted to play ff

I can choose the song and everything was alright until recently, now I'm being constantly bombarded by ads 

[WokeEqualist]

I've been getting multiple unskippable +20 second long ads on the same video lately which is outrageous, if they wanna make ads unskippable they should be 6 seconds long maximum. I watch it on my Apple TV so there is no way around it sadly, I even stop watching the video altogether if I didn't even wanna watch it that bad in the first place when the long ads play. I'm sorry but I'm not paying for yet another platform

Edited August 30, 2023 by WokeEqualist

[velocity]

try newpipe

[barbiegrande]

Am I the only one who doesn’t mind Ads? Gives me time to pee or get a snack. 

[spree]

On 8/29/2023 at 7:28 PM, DougAF said:

YouTube is the one doing too much with ads? 
 

exactly.  There are way more ads on ATRL than YouTube.  

[spree]

55 minutes ago, barbiegrande said:

Am I the only one who doesn’t mind Ads? Gives me time to pee or get a snack. 

well as a YouTuber myself, I know ads are how channels make money.  I skip thru them all regardless (except the 5sec ones), but I'm not going to add an ad blocker or anything.  That would be kinda hypocritical to my own interests. 

[Alldeezy]

wouldn't know I got Premium 

[barbiegrande]

55 minutes ago, spree said:

well as a YouTuber myself, I know ads are how channels make money.  I skip thru them all regardless (except the 5sec ones), but I'm not going to add an ad blocker or anything.  That would be kinda hypocritical to my own interests. 

That too. I imagine YT premium cuts into ad sense money for smaller YouTubers, which is who I mostly consume. 

[The7thStranger]

On 8/30/2023 at 1:50 AM, PMKARDASHIAN said:

Can someone PLEASE answer this 

Try Poptube. It will block YouTube's ads. It *does* have its own 5-second ads, but they are far less obtrusive. Also, it lets you play videos with the phone locked.

[rzal]

Youtube got so bad in general, their main page algorithm used to be IT now there's nothing interesting to watch. 

[Azulito]

I wonder how people saying they'd never pay for YouTube are paying for Spotify or Apple Music. YouTube Premium is like $1 or $2 extra but includes a lot more. It's definitely worth it, especially if you can get a student discount

[DeepEnd]

Stop being poor and pay for the subscription.