▲ 667 ▼ YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com) submitted 8 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 270 comments fedilink hide all child comments :kitty-scared: 1 YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.
[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (3 children) I wonder what the breaking point is for those who don’t use adblockers. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kamen@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 child) Remember that some people voluntarily pay for TV and streaming with ads. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply) [–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago I had been paying for it a while ago since, to be fair, the service is free otherwise and often times it pays the creator more. Then Youtube decided to give about $45mil or so worth of energy toward making pro-Israel content and suddenly I didn’t mind the ads so much anymore. Now they’re making it a lot worse and my solution is going to need to be an adblocker. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kamen@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 child) Remember that some people voluntarily pay for TV and streaming with ads. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago I had been paying for it a while ago since, to be fair, the service is free otherwise and often times it pays the creator more. Then Youtube decided to give about $45mil or so worth of energy toward making pro-Israel content and suddenly I didn’t mind the ads so much anymore. Now they’re making it a lot worse and my solution is going to need to be an adblocker. permalink fedilink source parent