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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads! (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 48 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Ublock must be blocking them. Huh, oh well.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I have noticed lately that in FF with ublock the videos have refused to play for an ad like length of time. Probably ab testing something.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If the video refuses to play, just reload the page. That fixes it for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I don't wait for it either but it does cause me click the play button a few times and watch the throbber spin for a second before I do.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I notice that I don't pay attention to videos as much any more. It's just stuff playing in the background while I game or edit an image or browse piefed or something. So if it "hangs" for a couple seconds while ublock fights the ads, it doesn't really bother me.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    AFAIK that is youtube delaying the video stream on purpose because you were supposed to watch ads in that time. If you wait 5-10 seconds it will start playing. For me it happens only on the first video, and autoplay is still instant afterwards. I am gladly waiting out the loading screen than watch ads. Knowing that I probably make google lose money on every view makes the wait even more bearable (I am never logged in, and anyways I always run youtube in private mode, so there's almost no profiling happening)

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