Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement)

While the company stops short of directly saying as much, it sure feels like the preposterously long ads we’re seeing here are an example of one tool in Google’s arsenal for effectively disabling YouTube playback for violators of the site’s ToS.

That makes no sense at all. It isn't like skipping ads results in a black screen for the length of the ad.

People with adblockers aren't going to see hour long ads or black screens when they don't see ads in the first place.

The YouTube owner explains that normal non-skippable in-stream ads are limited to just 15 seconds in length.

This is bullshit. I don't use an ad-blocker and often get a full minute of ad. And an extra minute if I happen to pause the stream for like 30 seconds and come back to it.

I either watch YouTube without ads or don't watch at all. We need a new platform for videos.

One solution to that problem is to close YouTube on your device and do something else with your time.

Some Alternatives:

• Firefox + Ublock Origin
• Grayjay App
• Grayjay Desktop
• FreeTube
• NewPipe

Youtube is like that bully that asks for your lunch money and when you say no, they slam you into a locker.

When you say no again, they start hitting you until you finally give that lunch money.

Once you do, they will show you the others are being abused harder when they demand more money from you.

I would love to contribute to the end of youtube.

To me, the value of youtube and it's music is far below the €18 it costs to get me and my wife ad free. My internet costs roughly that and offers a lot of possibilites, so why should i pay double for a service that supplies about 1 millionth of what the internet itself has to offer, especially considering my wage has barely changed while i watch my rent and groceries triple in cost.

Y'all need to realize there is an end to my money, you can't keep taking.

Explanation: they weren't using an (functional) ad blocker for some reason.

Well, you see, there's this thing called capitalism...

They force paying customers ( yt music premium & yt premium ) to disable ad blockers, too. Why? If I accordingly to the contract shouldn't get any ads why they would need to punish for blocking ads which shouldn't exist :-)?

uBlock Origin works wonders. I haven't seen a YouTube ad since I installed it.

We’ve launched a global effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium for an ad free experience.

By drastically increasing the rates every 6 months. Raising it past the prices of actual production streaming services. And paying the people making the content less and less money, until they have to put their own ads and their own content.

I haven't read the article, but surely this is an accident? I have almost no faith left in our capitalistic society, but surely even Youtube understands that nobody is going to watch an hour long ad, right?

just make it a subscription service already and see how many people remain...

Can someone donate a large sum to peertube please

There's a chance ad blockers are eating up the 'Skip' button while also failing to block the ad.

A CHANCE?

Youtube when I use Ublock Origin on my Thinkpad and ReVanced on my Pixel:

No problem with ads with https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ Or youtube revanced :)

I didn't have a problem with using YouTube Premium, but Google is doing a lot of shitty practices. The latest is purging Google Maps reviews in collusion with local authorities for private interests. Maybe don't be part of a shitty monopoly while trying to push this sort of bullshit onto us?

Hour long unskippable ads? You have to show me that video where this happens

Greed.

I don't use ad blockers ..... I've gone back to my old cable TV habits from the 90s .... use the mute button and take a toilet break, get a drink from the kitchen, check your social media feed, knit a sweater, talk to your spouse .... then unmute and keep watching.

The bonus is that if you happen to miss the restart, you can rewind back to what you missed ... we never had that in the 90s. Sure PVR existed but not everyone had one.

I came across a few days ago with Pipepipe, which is a Newpipe Hard fork with sponsorblock. It seems that it is better maintained than Newpipe ( Newpipe stops working sometimes ), and has more features. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced/

Sharing another app suggestion(s) for Android: Tubular [0] or the more up-to-date LastPipeBender [1].

Both apps differ from NewPipe and its variants by integrating with PeerTube along with YouTube, apart from providing features like SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.

I have started using PeerTube much more often as my subscriptions from YouTube and PeerTube are now shown together, which makes for a seamless and superior experience altogether.

[0] https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular [1] https://github.com/MaintainTeam/LastPipeBender

Using Youtube without Revanced or uBlock is like using a phone without a case.

How about this, do a profit sharing agreement with channels. If a channel makes money from YouTube, YouTube gets a cut, and let the channel decide whether to run ads, use sponsor segments, post affiliate links, etc. If they choose to not monetize at all, they pay a monthly fee for hosting.