YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer
YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer
We've gone full circle
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription) to remove them. It beats paying $80 a month for the great privilege of spending 30% of the time watching ads.
For now, of course.
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription)
Well I should bloody well hope so, considering you also get far less than cable.
YouTube is still mostly amateur or indie content, most of it short-form, and most of it frankly just not very good. There's still stuff on there worth watching, and I know some people really do consume a lot of content on there in the manner of watching TV back in the day, but objectively it really isn't the same thing as professional studio content. I can watch some random guy in Ohio do a 15 minute review of some niche thing I'm interested in as much as anyone can, but there's no way I'd consider that worth the same value as a long form TV series or feature film.
Tbh paying a package deal isn't actually the worst thing. I get netflix, sky sports, BT sports, movies, all channels, 1gb broadband and 1 unlimited data SIM. £100 pm.
Yes it's expensive but it's £55 for 1gb broadband anyway. They have a stranglehold over football/soccer that it's hard to get away from. Yes you can pirate the stream but it's not the same.
This has fuck all to do with YT but generally getting packages individually isn't cheaper sometimes.
No, full circle would be more and longer ads.
Anyway, I’m a Smart Tube User :)
so, what? 4-5 minutes instead of 2? yea, that'll keep people watching.....
something else
The problem is: what else?
Pirated and adblocked content
Still YouTube but with an adblocker
Lots of things?
🏴☠️
You're welcome: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Can vouch. This, revanced and ublock on all my different devices and I haven't seen an ad in years
Exactly. I keep forgetting yt even has ads until I visit friends.
Anything for LG TVs? WebOS?
Haven't used it myself but this looks popular at a glance.
Now I just need a Roku version.
Does this work for Roku devices?
YouTube is fully enshitified. Useless app.
I open the vanilla app on someone else's computer the other day. Not logged in, in private browser mode, and the algorithm was immediately suggesting clips from Fox News and one of those loser Ben Shapiro types.
Even trying to find videos now. The search results seem to be clogged up of junk. Used to use it all the time to find a 30 second video for how to do some procedure or something. Now every single video is 10 minutes long and it's some idiot talking for 9 minutes about something unrelated and somewhere in the video buried between bullshit is 1 minute of useful content.
Came to YouTube because it was faster and easier than reading the manual but that's just not the case anymore.
The new ads suck. It's so frustrating to use. I'm hoping a PiHole will get rid of em but I think I remember reading that Google does some nasty shit to dodge that
I use SmartTube on my Android TV and it hasn't run into any issues so far. If you can install 3rd party apps you might want to give it a try
Yep I have it too. For now it works flawlessly. Hopefully it doesn't take much from Google's userbase and they just leave it alone lol.
Kudos to the Dev of that absolute gem. They constantly update and patch that app and have done so for many years.
Google uses the same domain name, pi-hole can't block that.
Source: current pi-hole user.
Pihole only works when ads come from a third party add provider. It cannot tell the difference between YouTube videos and ads.
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Smart tube is amazing.
You can get rid of any ads right now, you only need the right solution depending on where you see the ads. Smarttubenext for TV, ReVanced for your phone, Firefox + Ublock Origin for your PC. Pihole for the rest and Adguard DNS on my phone just to be sure. I can't tell you when I saw the last ad in my life.
That's odd... on my TV there are no youtube ads, and no sponsor messages.
I've been using grayjay, it certainly has some irritating bugs but they'll work out the kinks plus now I can watch twitch and kick with my screen off.
Not for me, 🚫ads + 🏴☠️
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They really can't seem to grasp the concept they what people prefer, if they have to watch ads, is 1 short ad per video.
Not multiple short ads per video nor 1 long ad. Just 1 short (15 seconds tops) ad and that's all.
They are going in the opposite direction
Oh they get it, there's no way they don't, they just want more Ad dollars with for less content that isn't giving them Ad dollars.They're looking for that sweet sweet middle ground where they can play more ads and you won't just stop watching.
Cool, more reason to use Grayjay or ReVanced
The Monkey's Paw has curled.
I know of SmartTube for android TVs, but has anyone found a solution for TVs running Tizen?
Yes, Tizen TVs have HDMI ports where you can plugin an android powered device.
The availability of Tizen apps is abysmal
I looked around a year ago and I couldn't seem to find anything. People just don't seem to develop for Tizen. I ended up buying Google TV and sideloading everything I needed.
You can pay for premium, I know everyone around here gets mad about that. But I like content creators getting paid myself, and I hate ads. So it works for me.
I wish there was a way to stop ads on Roku. I'd rather watch on my TV, but my phone doesn't have ads, so I usually use it.
There's this: https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
But I haven't quite figured out how to use it yet.
So, TV then... 🙄
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That’s because YouTube is making ads on TVs appear less frequently, but in exchange, you’ll have to sit through longer commercials.
YouTube started testing longer but less frequent ad breaks in September, and now they’re launching across all TVs.
The change means you’ll see an updated countdown timer in the bottom-right corner of your screen that will now show how long you have left until the entire ad break ends or when you can skip.
Just like on mobile and the web, you’ll now see ads in between Shorts that you can skip through using your remote.
While I can’t say I’m too happy that I’ll get ads in between Shorts on TVs, I am kind of glad about the change to ad breaks on regular videos, as I hopefully won’t get as many small interruptions while I’m watching two-hourlong deep dives.
YouTube has had a major focus on ads and getting people to watch them this year.
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I installed newpipe and didn't look back.
The ads were too obnoxious and frequent.
I understand they have to make money somewhere, but at some point you degrade the product too far. This is what they did.
Mute browser tab, look at some other tab, come back. Like the old days of channel surfing TV in a way.
I bet their next move will be to tier the premium into Premium Original and Premium Extra Gold or some bullshit like that. One will have to watch a few short ads (even though they are paying) and the more expensive one won't.
I am not a fan of punching down, there's too much of that. But part of me feels like we all kind of deserve this for expecting the internet to be free for so many years. We passively chose the ad-funded model by refusing to pay for anything.
Only years too late did I finally start throwing a little money at my favorite content creators via Patreon, etc.
So yeah, I'm like Dave Foley and the cancer. I'm sorry I gave the internet ad cancer, everyone. It's all my fault!
There are no ads.
This community is obsessed with YouTube ads lol
To clarify, not trying to advocate for ads of whatever idc, just wish I didn't see a dozen posts a day about YouTube Ads