YouTube's Adblock War Just Got Way Worse...
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at UA-cam's war with various extensions has gotten to the point where server based changes might be on the way. This may effect even extensions beyond in regards to timestamping tools like Sponsorblock, How? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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Google has never paid me a dime for my data they're selling, I see ad block on YT as an even trade off
UA-cam accepted the terms of use when I signed up to their platform that 80% of all data-sale earnings made off my data go to my pocket.
;)
@@Rexhunterjhow?
I think you have a misunderstanding about how business works. The company doesn't pay the customer, it's the other way around.
@@PvtAnonymous We aren't the customers. We are the product.
@@PvtAnonymous Yes but that's only if the company is selling that customer the product. Google is instead taking our data (the product), and selling it to other people, so we should be inclined to a fair balance.
Real ones remember the days where ad points were actually marked on the video scroll line.
i would be ok with mandatory ads injected and unskpable if they werent half the time for spyware or scams
Real ones remember when youtube didn't even have ads. When they were first implemented you could hit F5 a few times to refresh the page until the ad didn't play.
@@StevenHawkingsSpitrag you've just activated some really deep memories in my head. i was like 6 around that time (not entirely sure), but i do remember that trick
@@StevenHawkingsSpitrag Or when it was just a tiny lil popup at the bottom / on the side that you could close out of
Real ones remember when there was no UA-cam
It's ironic that guidelines say that you must watch ads, the same ads that are infamous for breaking said guidelines.
Type shit.
That's one thing that gets me. Like bruh.
We are not running "ad blockers;" we are "preventing malvertisement lures in our environment."
Some of the ads also lead to some very dicey sites lol.
A couple years ago I got a legitimate cam website ad. I'm sure it was a one time slip up and likely won't ever happen again (at least to me anyway), but it was still wild and I was thankful I was at home for it.
It's funny how they act like we are the villians for using ad block when most of the ads on this platform are either scams or misleading mobile game ads. People have complained about this before to UA-cam but they never listened. This is all their fault.
Once got an ad for a game that doesn't exist named "crimson angel". Recognized two of the images as being the inventory screens on the ad being from Diablo and Grim Dawn. It was in the recommend section.
@@1gient same thing happened to me a few years ago but it was with a game that was falsely advertised as a RPG horror esque pokemon game but ended up being a shitty pokemon rip off with too much fanservice and literally none of what the ads advertised.
it cuz they want money
@1gient I saw something like that too, they blatantly ripped a png of the inventory in diablo 2 and filled it with their extraneous nonsense
Being a villain is sometimes good
You know it's bad when the FBI recommends people use adblockers
It's because of all the *_malware_* that comes from ads, including the kind you don't even have to interact with, merely _having the malicious ad be chosen to load_ on an entirely mundane page is enough to get you cryptolockered. Google knows this, and Google _wants it to keep happening_ because they get kickbacks from "looking the other way" and allowing malicious ads in the AdSense network.
The glowies know what's up
they cant force people to supprot governments, lol. big mistake to use fbi like that.
i wouldnt trust the fbi either
I have right now both AdBlock Plus and the native Opera addblocker on; And I will tell you, It's HILARIOUS to see every video taking 5-8 seconds to load in because UA-cam's scripts are actively fighting a war against both layers of defense. Brave Browser can do It natively (and better mind you), but the war is basicaly the same. It's like watching Goku vs Jiren at 25fps.
Regularly surfing the internet through ad block literally saves you hours and hours of your life.
Yeah it's so bad these days that it's sometimes difficult to sit through and watch a MoistCritical video because he doesn't use an adblocker, which just highlights the actual need for an adblocker.
Anytime I have to use a browser/device/individual site without an ad-blocker, I remember just how ludicrous the ad situation on most web pages has become...I understand they have to pay the bills somehow, but the number of ads is obscene, not only making viewing content painful (this is on sites beyond UA-cam), but slowing down pages as well.
@@yellowblanka6058 I had to download an ad-blocker browser app on my phone because most site were almost unreadable because half of my screen would be taken by ads, giving me barely 4-5 lines of text to actually read, and a lot of time while scrolling up or down it pulls up ads over everything. It's truly a nightmare to browse.
Don't care
@@EatinPaste he probably does in private, he just doesnt want you to use them when watching his videos.
I used to be anti-adblock as to help support content creators online until UA-cam rolled out double ads and the fandom wiki started becoming non-navigational. Legit we need laws against the absurd amount of ads we're being forced to watch because the current generation isn't affected by them.
Fandom is damn near impossible on a mobile phone, you can barely scroll anything! Whats more annoying is, its usually one of the first things on most search engines.
Main reason i mention Phone is when im playing a game its often faster to grab the phone, load google, say what im looking for and scroll the pages than it is to go to my (ancient) PC.
@@TheAuron32 absolutely, and it's especially infuriating when it's all the same ad for something you just don't need. I'm tired of getting ads to stop vaping and *especially* Temu or Depop. Who has spare money for that kinda thing in this economy?
@@robunnygirl None of these ads ever apply to me. It's astonishing how bad they are at targeting, considering how much effort goes into data collection.
I remember how I went to Fandom Wiki without my adblocker. It was truly an impossible task.
@@robunnygirl Even if the one sending out the ads pools like 800 billion trillion bazillion doubloons, there should still be variety.
If UA-cam makes it impossible for adblockers to work, I will stop watching UA-cam and find something else to do with my time. I'll go back to using a CD player and watching older movies before I let my anxiety-ridden, ADHD brain get assaulted by loud, obnoxious ads. I'm sick of how overstimulating everything is now, and ads only exacerbate the problem.
LOL...I never stopped using my blu-ray player. I still buy movies in hard copy because I'll sit through an FBI warning--even though it is almost as stupid as ads on Pootube--but to sit through 20 minutes of ads to watch a 2 hour movie is just insufferable. Since i don't watch actual tv because I'm so tired of the scads (scam ads) like bogus life insurance, bogus health insurance, and of course, the constant political ads, my tv is just a blu-ray player now...
Cool, don't let the door hit ya on the way out
@@AnachronisticGameryt isn’t your dommy mommy, stop it bro 😂😂😂
I never realized how much I relate to this.
While my feelings are related to just decreasing my time on UA-cam, I've honestly been considering switching over to, IDK, Newgrounds and other means [(🦜YOHO YOHO🏴☠] ) for entertainment. Especially since I want to focus more on producing and creating art.
*Ads, bots, and AdBots* own 60% of the internets.
The ads themselves are advertising for scams...
Try 90 percent
And the dark web is another 20%, NSFW is another 19.99%, and the 0.01% is everything you know that is the internet.
dead internet theory
And sponsor companies taking up 50% of a video 😒
This site just gets more and more unbearable to use day by day.
Nobody holding you hostage my dude
@@xXDoUbLeDDXx38 Wrong, Yt is pretty much the biggest monopoly there is. Absolutely no alternatives whatsoever
It's like they are provoking us at this point. We will NEVER succumb to this idiotic forced ad campaign!
Actually, this isn't as bad as people think. If they're embedding it into the video itself then that means its subject to how the player functions... meaning you can just skip it by manually moving the track bar.
Likewise, if at certain points it just randomly plays ads then adblock works.
Simply put, even though they found a way around adblockers it just means people have to pay attention to the videos they watch to skip ads.
@@xXDoUbLeDDXx38 Who said anybody was my guy
I used to watch ads a lot more all the way through. (I enjoy the marketing aspect) First thing that started me skipping was a 3 hour lego movie ad playing at work.
What really got me was the 1 of 2. It changed the interaction. It was no longer "I'll let it play" but "If I don't click quick, I'll be forced to watch more ad". They added anxiety to press the skip button asap, which is now a habit.
I feel like most people have sort of forgotten how YT use to do that small ad banners that popped up on the bottom of the screen, ya know? When they were not excessively invasive and interrupted what you were watching but just came in while the video still played and took up MAYBE 5% of your screen
I remember those times! You could always close them and continue to watch the video without interruption!
Why can’t they go back to it?! Now ads just pop up with no warning and get invasive and annoying now 😓
back when the teacher had their mouse on it and the one kid with balls of steel went around to the computer to click off of it
and then google
@@xXxXxXxAllianaxXxXxX money hoarders😥
So they attack and chase ad blockers but ignore the millions of bots and scammers on youtube bots have gotten so out of hand that I gave up on looking at the comments of most videos
They favor the bots.
If the Bots watch Ads, That's just free money for them
I was really expecting you to be a bot who ripped off a random comment and got likes botted☠️
@jerricaleonard2123 I've seen a bot say "I love CP so much"
@@Alex-oz2eu lmao no
It's hilarious how these companies STILL don't seem to get it.
If we get forced to watch ads too much, we leave.
If they start injecting ads into ever-cost-increasing streaming services, we leave.
If they keep increasing the price of the services, we leave.
And for those who asks "But how will you watch movies then ?"
Ah me boy, I'm from the time before streaming-services. We all put on a fancy hat and pull out our Cutlass.....
Yarrr!
Come aboard and bring along all your hopes and dreams
Meh, I'll go to reading hour at the library, watch some local LARPers, I don't have to watch UA-cam.
Honestly, I'll be happy to see the rise of local community, which they technically fear us actually being a united community more than us stop paying and stop watching, so bring it.
Yohoho!
aint got knowledge of pirating, but im fine with waiting for DVD releases on movies over any streaming service or live tv
I have premium. Having adblock STILL affects me and I must disable it for UA-cam.
In the last week or two, with adblock disabled and an active premium subscription, my videos "hiccup" where ads would be inserted. I have gigabit Internet. No call for that...
I used to pay for premium many many years ago, but unfortunately alphabet/google has become a company that I just can't justify paying money to. I mean they are one of the new age companies that will take all your money and then sell your data to boot. Like no thanks man.
@@skiefyre123 Exactly. As another comment said, $200,000,000,000 in profits last year alone. The poor struggling trillion dollar company needs us to disable our adblockers...
@@skiefyre123 I stopped paying for Premium close to two and a half years ago when it came out that your device had to connect to UA-cam's servers every 72 hours to verify your downloads, otherwise they just wouldn't play. Literally the entire reason I had Premium to begin with. The moment I found that out I cancelled my subscription, and haven't looked back. High seas for me all the way.
Sometimes I wonder, what if YT was never bought by Google?
How different will it be?
Sounds normal. I don't have premium and using their very own UA-cam app on my phone, my video won't load and pauses. Yeah, can't blame an ad-blocker for that one, UA-cam!
UA-cam thinking the tiktok generation won't just close the tab when they get a 30 second ad is hilarious.
Ads are ruining the internet.
Ads are paying for the internet
So how exactly do you want companies to be profitable?
They have already ruined it.
@@robbirose7032Go on any news site now and say that again please
@@turkeyman631friendly donations and government grants
$200+ billion in profits last year alone....make sure to disable your blockers guys they're struggling here.
"Leave my billion dollar company alone!"
All that money and they can't even put 10% off it in making the entire platform/website better, smh..
you need top comment.
@@Razer5542 making it better would make people satisfied and leave earlier. They want to keep you not satisfied enough to leave
They won’t be able to make rent this month if you keep your Adblock enabled >:(
I've already dropped Twitch because I couldn't bear the ads. Now UA-cam is going the same way
fwiw subs and bits comprise the majority of twitch's revenue, with subs being the most stable.
ads only make about 25%, covering their profitability gap
i personally suspect aws's inefficiency with video is playing a role here. twitch publicly said they use aws's video service offering internally, and aws's networking goes through multiple layers of overhead. i used to work in aws, on a team that multiple times paged aws's internal networking team over disruptions before their own automation paged them. one part of my (former) team's backend is borderline global internet infrastructure, and that's not an exaggeration. and their networking, while immense, isn't great at low latency, low overhead stuff. they only get away with it bc of absurdly high networking costs.
@@dead-claudia Wow. If that's the case, with how intrusive their ads are, who knows if the viewers they lose because of the ads aren't worth more than the ads themselves? Not saying they should be completely ad-less, but there should be a balance and they went overboard
Yesterday I got a 50 second ad with the promise "fewer ads for this longer video" I swear to god 1 minute later another 50 second ad
that is the creator deciding when to place ads, not UA-cam.
@@lfcbpro weird
@@lfcbpro unless they don't
I wouldn't use Ad block if 99% of the ads I see were not scam ads.
Or annoyingly loud and intrusive
Yes you would
@@xx_pcgamer_xx6866 Wow, y'all must know each other pretty well
real
@@xx_pcgamer_xx6866init like bruh tf. Who tf wants to watch a 30 second Coke then a 15 second Revolut ad back to back why do people lie
The FBI recommends using an adblocker, that should be a big sign to folks on how insidious ads on the net currently are.
Is there a source that states that? I'm not doubting it but this topic definitely peeked my interest and I want to read more into it haha
I thought it was the DOJ.
piqued
@@Sopa_Soup Takes all of 2 seconds to google. Grow some functioning brain cells
@@GreatFox42 You thought wrong
UA-cam breaking their own TOS and asking people to watch ads will never not be ironic to me
I'm pretty sure youtube spies on us. In the last few months two things started happening to me: 1) there's an ad when I skip sponsored content and 2) there's an ad when I put down my phone and can't click skip because of washing hands, cooking or smthg
google's been known for spying on its users for over a decade
that's just par for the course
THIS
Sounds about right. I started turning my phone off when I take a shower because literally 30 seconds after I start showering an ad plays. Every. Single. Time.
My phone keeps recommending stuff related to things I’ve said in the vicinity of my device, apparently my mic is on and listening to me at all times judging by the accuracy
"If you use ad blockers, we'll ask you to allow ads on UA-cam" No Thanks, I'll just block the warning. I don't need to see that loud temu ad for the 282792th time.
"dEsTrOy ThEm AlL!1!"
SHUT UP!!!!!
They show the same ads over million times and also scam ads it's annoying
🎶 Feels like a dream feels like magic 🎶
or ads with stolen ai voices, ive seen targeted kids products ads stealing spongebobs voice
This is actually so fair. They have no right to advertise scams
Remember when the UA-cam ads were unobtrusive little banners at the bottom of the video that you could just close while the video still played?
the classic case of capitalism "wait i can continuously make the advertisement and price of my product more and more intrusive so i can get more money at the cost of my customer's happiness? OFC ILL DO THAT WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS A CHOICE?"
roblox was just sued for faking profits
i bet UA-cam will soon start to fake their profits too as theres no way they're getting more than 2 subscribers from this
I have a feeling they actually made more money back then. Didn't even bother blocking those ads and even clicked on some of the non-scammy ones.
I was there 3000 years ago...
Pepperidge Farms Remembers
There was a time where youtube ads were fun. I discovered some real gems back in the day, it was almost part of the youtube experience to see if you got something cool. Now I insist that everyone at my place of work (a school) has adblock on their computers after we got an ad that was a NEWS BROADCAST ABOUT A SCHOOL SHOOTING in the middle of class trying to watch an educational video. It's become the reverse, instead of hitting gold sometimes you have to block the ads before you inevitably get something disturbing.
I feel like you brought up a very good point.
If the ad read is at the front, sometimes i don't even bother skipping it. When I get hit with an ad 3~5 minutes in, I normally just turn the video off and watch something else. I had never really thought about that, but you're completely right. I feel ambushed. The flow of the video is broken.
Why can’t we class action UA-cam. If Blocking ads is against the terms of service and 90% of the ads are malicious scams, UA-cam should be held liable and complacent in criminal activity, and there fire should be charged with fraud.
Edit: I was not expecting the amount of discourse on this, but it is not unwelcome.
They have too much money for regular people to fight against.
@@filonin2 Thus the class action suite.
It would never happen in the US bc we've barely done anything to regulate the internet in favor of the people. The only regulations that have been passed are those that the corporate entities paid to force through congress and the FCC. If they were to apply existing regulation to the internet as exists for the radio/tv it would actually address what's going on. For example, if you create content for a Japanese based YT channel, they can try to force you to abide by Japanese laws which favor the corporation infinitely more than US law does. Yet if you create content for a Japanese tv channel in the US, they have to follow US and state laws to the letter or they would be outright banned from operating within the US. This has been a serious issue for a couple subsets of streamers/content creators, largest currently being vtubers.
Google is due owned and CIA run. Good luck with that.
@@uumanebs At this point it’s no longer about regulation. UA-cam (and by extension google) at this time have been negligent to the point where criminal activity is just flat out okay on UA-cam in the form of many of these ads that, by refusing to takedown, may as well make them complicit, pretty sure that kind of stuff is illegal in way more than just the US.
TV became 80% adverts, blaring and screaming at you about products you totally don't care about. We moved to the internet, enjoyed UA-cam... And we're almost coming full circle.
except you can't go back to TV, because it's been trashed. youtube is becoming the next landfill. Where to next, everybody?
It was over when Google bought out UA-cam long ago, where have you been?
The next thing is video games and it’s all ready happening
we're back to cable with every single platform and their basement child asking for a subscription.
Give people something good to get them hooked, Gradually make it worse to increase profits. Streaming was a good alternative to cable Now its just hundreds of channels again only its harder to figure out where your show is and each channel is a different app with a separate monthly fee
I have an adblocker and love that youtube doesn't even recognize that i'm using it.
What adblocker is it?
@@Biblically-Accurate-CrowBrave browser's inbuilt (Aggressive) Adblocker
@@IntrovertSinceBirthbrave is extremely good at circumventing basically everything google wants to try. and they employ a major contributor to ublock origin.
Cant tell you cuz then youtube tries to block it, but its not brave@@Biblically-Accurate-Crow
@@ikelene69 Smart. Keep it to yourself or even this will be ruined. If a person really wants to he can experiment to find it himself xD.
I use an adblocker because of the explicit ads that get played, the constant anti smoking ads, and the obnoxious amount of ads that get played. Sponsorships are vastly better because we can skip to what we want while allow creators to still get paid. I usually turn off a video if an ad appears. Shit is annoying
Shoutout to uBlock developers constantly on the fight against youtube trying to anti adblock them and many others
REAL
uBO devs GOAT
using it for years. love it. and adguard for my mobile and tablet
Firefox + ublock = W
its been a hot min since ive had to reset ublock's cache and filters, last time i did it was like the first month yt started fighting back, just shows the kinda work theyre putting in
when there was only 1-2 ads per video, we endured, but now, literally yesterday i got 4 ads in a row, luckly the third one was skippable, this is unacceptable, that's why using adblockers is a necessity those days.
It’s unbearable to use the TV app. There’s more than 2 ads every time, and you can’t go like 3 mins without an ad. It SUCKS. I use SmartTube on my firestick.
Remember when it was one ad skippable after 5 seconds, full stop?
Not to mention loads of these ads are scams/malware.
@@michasokoowski6651if not that, it's mobile games with the most ludicrous jiggle physics you've ever seen in your life
Use Brave, Adblock comes automatically with it, nothing else than Brave to download, not an advertisement, I legit made the switch a month ago, best decision I've made in years. I can assure you it works and its 100% Free, just like Firefox or Chrome
The first ad I usually get on UA-cam after turning mine off is an ad blocker.
as an aspiring animator and as an artist i watch alot of shorter videos on youtube that can be as short as 10-30 seconds but still get a 3 minute ad, its insane and makes watching short, animated content impossible to watch (ps i am specifically talking about animation memes)
Just a friendly reminder that UA-cam does not pay ALL of its content creators. Only the ones it has approved of... but it will put ads on EVERY SINGLE VIDEO.
B...b.but using adblock is agaisnt TOS!!!
This part makes me mad in particular. I upload music on a different channel with videos that only get like 20 views or less on average, and it will still put ads when I've tested watching them with other accounts or incognito. Monetizing my music when I haven't made a penny
@@carlosrenteria4712 and when you try to monetize your own work you get bots nuking your channel with copyright claims on your own music
They were playing ads on channels they told were "not suitable for any advertisers"... I think The Quartering was one who showed their email, and half the comments on that video were "but I just got ads in this video".
That's what really got me mad. Not that they had decided to demonetize politically opposed people, but that they lied to them and continued playing ads to make money for themselves.
That was what lead me to find Vanced back in the day.
Yep. Years ago unmonetized creators like myself could choose to not have ads play on our videos, but at some point YT started playing ads on them anyway and keeping 100% of the revenue. That part in particular doesn't set right with me.
A multi billion dollar company bitching about loosing a minute amount of money is classic
Yep, fucking capitalism.
UA-cam: "Stop blocking ads and watch these 2, 30 second ads, we'll Increase the amount of ads In a row later!"
well servers are really expensive, if they keep losing money eventually they'd have to shut down UA-cam. it's like UA-cam probably costs over a couple million dollars to run per year if not per month
@tedbasher3000 And there's the multi billion dollar company simp.
He isn't wrong though, if they don't have operating money then we won't have a place to watch the content we enjoy for relatively free @@grishobombata4994
13:35 man i got barraged by four unskippable ads twice this year, and those people on youtube are still questioning why they get so much hate for those changes, people come on youtube to have a great time watching their favourite creators not their least favourite ads
unpopular opinion: I love ads, because whenever I get annoyed by an ad I just go "thats enough for now" and stop doomscrolling, stop watching youtube or whatever
Fair enough
seems nice
When they put 30 sec ads on 40 sec videos……. Yeahhhhhhh they pushed me to install ad blockers… and the kicker is 90% of ads in this garbage site are SCAM ADS!!!! Holy fuck why!
The amount of literal porn ads on this site is insane, especially with all of the AI chatbot ads.
Because, that sweet sweet money of course, the scam advertising always pays a higher price
@@pigeonliveryworks But oversaturation and poor quality drive down the value of ALL ads shown on the platform. It encourages viewers to tune out and do something else for a minute. Then come back and hit Skip if it's a stupidly long ad, or 0 to rewind to the start of the actual video they intended to watch.
Advertisers should be FURIOUS about the diminishing quality on their end too.
Yep I never used an adblocker for 10+ years. They did this to themselves.
Has anyone else gotten the "skip ad in 5 seconds" the ad is actually 4 seconds, so you have to wait an extra 5 seconds of the NEXT ad to able to skip?
the irony is that all the adblocker controversy has just drove more adblockers traffic
For real, I found a better ad blocker because of all this controversy
We complain about the attacks, but the effect is actually a good thing overall.
People don't want to fix things until they're completely broken.
@Epsilockeof gotten tons of sales for my own ad blocker cuz of the controversy 💀
@@Epsilocke Show that you care and share, which one?
After decades, companies still don't understand the Streisand effect, it's wild.
I use an adblock and I've been experiencing some of those server ads, they become unskippable because the adblocker thinks it's apart of the video. And with the ways youtube has treated it's content creators, for example the copyright system abuse, I'd rather go to another platform over giving youtube any amount of my money.
Ironically, I went through 14 minutes worth of ads while watching your video. In total, I 29 minutes were spent to complete a 15-minute-long video. OMFG!!
People use Adblock
Add more ads to make up for lost revenue
People are forced to use Adblock
Lose more money
Very intelligent people you have working for you UA-cam
UA-cam doesn't realize that their ads have such bad quality control. They think that quality is loud AF double ads. Nobody gives a S#!T about temu or oreos..
Most of the people working at UA-cam most likely have purple-colored hair and at least 5 facial piercings. Intelligence and logic is not exactly their strong suit.
@@K9V1 oh no... piercings!!!!1!1! And colored hair!?!?!?!
Touch grass.
@@K9V1logic sure isn't yours, either, huh
oh some pierced blue haired gooses 😂😂 funny
UA-cam: You WILL
Us: No the fuck we wont 🖕
Alphabet made Me drift to:
Firefox + uBlock Origin and DuckDuckGo search machine
UA-cam should know better than to tell the internet what to do. It never works out well
Aphabet made Me dritf to:
Firefox + uBlock Origin with DuckDuckGo search machine
Aphabet made Me dritf to:
Firefox + uBlock Origin with DuckDuckGo search machine
Aphabet made Me dritf to:
Firefox + uBlock Origin with DuckDuckGo search machine
The only read ads that I absolutely never skip over are the ones The Why Files makes, AJ's ads are always so entertaining. If more people stopped making low effort read ads they don't believe in, maybe more people would watch them.
My family uses UA-cam on our living room tv, not signed-in. It is almost unwatchable with how UA-cam’s ad system works. You always have an ad before the video, a 10ish minute video will have 3 ads that are extremely louder than the video then there’s an ad when the video ends. The ads being 5-times louder than the video is a fucking sin the lord cannot forgive, I swear our brand new speakers will be blown out before the end of the year.
Without adblockers, the internet would be unusable.
The man who invented the popup ad didn't suffer enough in life tbh
@@sinjin8576 the popup ad used to be one of the first viruses i believe
But how else will i know what to stuff down my gullet while i\m watching the newest episode of "Ow my balls"?
@@sinjin8576He actually regrets it
Thats putting it lightly
advertisers should understand that if someone doesn't want to see the ad, showing it over and over doesn't change the fact that the user doesn't want the product
nope because 1 out of 100 is stupid enough to give in after 20 adds. but yeah for the other 99 yeah you are totally right.
the more i see an ad the less i want a product.
@@aaafox9955 same
@@RednasXYZABC123 1 out of 100,000 more like. The only people to genuinely even consider going to whatever offhanded 3rd party site the product being advertised is on are strictly; people who do not know how the internet works, which is mostly the youngest of crotch goblins, and the oldest of ash piles. That, and the literal braindead vegetables. that is still an iota of the people on the internet.
I blacklist most products I see through UA-cam ads because they're so aggressive and interrupting. The quality has gotten worse, too, AI-generated voices and blatant manipulation tactics
I remember when UA-cam ONLY HAD ONE AD AT THE BEGINNING and that was all the ads you saw. I miss those days. I hate mid roll ads and end ads so much.
Banning adblockers should be a crime. If someone doesn't want to watch ads, they should be allowed to get an adblocker. If someone is actually interested in advertisements, then let them have them. Forcing ads down your throat especially if you don't want any should be downright illegal.
if someone from 2004 saw any modern website, they would assume they'd downloaded a virus
If you use a modern website without an ad blocker, there is a good chance you have downloaded some malware.
Bro I think you forget how absolutely awful pop up ads used to be. Like the internet today is far safer than it used to be as far as malicious ads go. Clearly you were not on the internet back in the 2000s
I would willingly sit through a blank screen for 2 minutes than have my brain rotted by ads - I would literally rather stare at nothing. I've effectively avoided ads for decades now & whenever I see ads *at all* I get wildly irritated & turn whatever it is off. When you're used to not being brainwashed it fr hits different
Even the own choices you make on the internet lead to you being brainwashed because of their algorithms and collection of data.
Say you look up the S24 Ultra because you want to see what it can do - you'll get a lot more content with that S24 shown to you and you might just end up buying it. Do you really think it was all your own choice? Samsung paid money for this exposure.
@fraizie6815 That’s not really the point of the comment ngl it’s just griping about ads
100 %
Same. I despise being advertised to and I firmly insist on deciding for myself what products and services I need. If I hear or see a loud and obnoxious ad then I will refuse to use whatever product or service the company running the ad thinks they'll make me brainlessly hand out my money for.
@@kitsuneg.d.x I think its a fair point to make seeing as OP did mention "When you're not used to being brainwashed"
Man the worst part is when the ad is in between songs. I love a song called end of ragnarok fron grandblue fantasy relink. That shit is 10min long and the fucking ad plays right when the last drop happens. I hate them so fucking much
Long time viewer and I'm happy to sit through ads for the sake of watching your content, always makes my day 😁
Imagine if UA-cam took 10% of the effort they put into combating adblockers and put it into fighting bots. I have seen dozens, if not hundreds of bot accounts using the same pictures of women in lingerie as profile pictures and commenting nonsense on the videos I watch. Whenever a new video is out they are the first to "comment".
Yes
Name checks out @@CertifiedCommentBotHater
Yeah, as a Business they are just trying to make money. But they should know if they don't wanna vet suitable ads then they gotta expect people to want out via adblock. I mean they could make a useful business show ads that people would benefit from, not just bc it was paid but something that someone would wanna buy or need and vet the ads. Not allowing sketchy ads run rampant. Personally if I was in charge that's what I'd do, vet ads and make them minimal. I mean it's a free service so they gotta get there money one way or another but do it right.
@@Timely-ud4rmBut with the number of uploads right now, I'd think they'd rather accept any way they can earn money
This is truly a masterpiece. You have such a way with words!
It's incredible how sites like UA-cam can keep going "People HATE our ads and are trying to block them.... How should we handle this?" and then somehow make the situation even worse than before.
Why is that incredible? They don't care that we don't like them they make money off of them so they're going to try to make us at least play them. It may not be that Black mirror episode where you're forced to keep your eyes on the ad but they do want them to play so they get the money. Because you're not even their customer you're a product to them. Remember if something is free you're the product.
@@MamaMOB It's not so much the concept of the ads themselves but the nature of the absolute scams/phishing sites they allow to run rampant advertising on here, which pulls in untold numbers of hapless victims who know no better than to click on malicious links. Atop that, most other harmless links are irrelevant to individual interests and support YT's own agenda.
Because no one will do anything, we will keep enjoying our circus while they keep slow boiling us
It is so frustrating. I have never used adblock. I wasn't necessarily against them, I just didn't feel any need for them. However, now the ads come so often and are so long (with no option to skip) that I am seriously considering getting ad blocks just because of that. Like seriously YT, you're not getting rid of adblocks, you are driving more people towards them.
@@MamaMOB Do you not understand the point the op is making? They are saying it's incredible that UA-cam knows people hates the ads yet they still try to force even stricter ones as it really is incredible but not in a good sense
I remember my friend showing me a video while we were both at a Pride Festival in our area, and we got a homophobic ad before the video. The most hilarious, cringeworthy part was that it was a MacDoesIt video, too. We got a homophobic ad, at a Pride Festival, before a video by a gay content creator. Needless to say, they got an adblocker after that.
If YouYube really wants me or others to watch ads, they should at least try to implement a way to filter which ads we want to see, which ads we don't want to see, and which ones we find downright offensive or TOS breaking. But they don't. I feel like that is a large part of why people use adblockers.
The other day, me and my friend had to sit through 5 consecutive unskippable ads in a row. All 5 ads added up to a minute in total. This happened 5 times in the 20 minute video. So 25 ads, and 5 minutes of unskippable ads total. In ONE VIDEO.
The EU needs to flat-out ban server-side ad injection as well as making it illegal to make ad blocker usage a ToS violation
US needs to do that too.
but they wont. us government is too corrupt to do so because of big corporation lobbying and EU has too many problems of its own right now like all the protests and stuff.
@@openworldgaming9109 what protests? there were some farmers who protested that the state cut their subsidies, some protested that there were too many people from the no, no we don't want them in our country, part of the world and some small protest organized by political leaders to increase their publicity and support before the election, and some strange protest for the guys that get bombed by an US reliable partner, and that is all, no recent protest, after the elections
@@openworldgaming9109do it with the second amendment.
@@megaman37456 I mean the FBI is in favor of ad blockers
Okay, here's the thing ... I'm old enough to remember when cable TV was add-free. We paid for add free service and that's what we got. But then the advertising started. At first just one or two adds between shows, then eventually one ad in the middle, then it was every 6 minutes and finally in the early 2000s there were 30 minutes of advertising in a 2 hour broadcast.
But the last straw was when the ads started being louder than the rest of the programming. ENOUGH!
I got so disgusted with it that I dumped all commercial broadcasting. The TV, the FM receiver, my two AM radios, even my boom box went in the trash. (Not figuratively... literally in the trash). I haven't watched or listened to commercial broadcasting since 2008.
Then the advertising started on the internet. Slowly creeping up until 30% of my screen space was filled with ads for stuff I would never dream of buying. Then the ads started moving, talking and playing music... ENOUGH!
This time I installed ad blockers in my browser and went to downloading ad free entertainment from some rather sketchy places... just to get rid of the onslaught of crap and distraction.
Fast forward to 2024 ... I haven't seen an advertisement in almost 20 years...
Now if UA-cam is going to begin server side ad injection that I can't stop... well then I will give up on UA-cam entirely. Not just a couple of especially annoying channels... ALL OF IT.
It's real simple people ... If I find myself wanting to buy a bucket... I'll go to an online vendor and look at their selection... or better still, I take a walk down the street to the hardware store.
Totally agree.
I remember being a kid watching TV in the 80's. There was always commercials expected. That was time for food or bathroom break. HBO or Cinemax was a different story with none. Yeah now everything's advertising all the time everywhere.
The ratio is correct, as a standard length TV episode now is 45 minutes long to fit in a one-hour time slot. It's 25% ads.
@@vylbird8014 Damn! I haven't watched cable television since 2013. Sounds worse but similar with ads or commercial times between.
True.The last I was excited about watching Tv was 2018
Adblockers are also preventing trackers through ads too. Ads such as "Top 10 revealing photos on the beach" with a woman in the water target either the dumber audience into dating sites or whatever. They even appear on brand spanking new computers on new computers. They don't appear from what you searched. There was a rumor that 2 people work on this adblocker update stuff somehow found out the scripts behind how the adblocker prevents the ad. Not sure if it's true but it's kind of spreading around social media. They say it violates UA-cam policies but yet when you actually violate it your channel/account would be at risk. All it does is prevent the video from playing. They thought ad blockers were an issue on why UA-cam was losing money so they prompt you to buy premium. When the premium pop-up appears, it'll ask you to buy it or "No, I want the ads".
Me putting a video on while I sleep:
An ad coming in to wake me up as soon as I start falling asleep:
I didn't start using adblock till about two years ago. The ads not just on UA-cam, but everywhere you go have just become so unbearable that it's impossible to read an article without getting an ad thrown at you every minute. The entire internet has been rendered basically unusable without some sort of adblock for your browser.
So to add to the dead internet theory, its not only 90% bots but also 90% ads killing it
Absolutely. My friends and boyfriend were shocked when I installed adblock on their PCs and had them use it for a few weeks, then told them to turn it off and see the difference. Most of them were absolutely shocked by how many ads they were suddenly seeing. I think people have gotten desensitized to the amount of ads and pop-ups they're really seeing every time they browse the internet, to the point that they're surprised when they have adblock and their browsing experience is so clean and simple. No videos in the corner, moving gif ads, loud autoplay, scams, or constant noise.
@@arson7012 What adbock do you use that works on YT?
Much of the internet has always been funded by ads. This has happened before - there was a time when the big problem was increasingly aggressive pop-ups and the hated pop-under, leading to sites becoming unusable due to the number of clicks required to close them all. It got so bad that every browser developer simply disabled the ability to launch pop-up windows without a triggering interaction.
@@vylbird8014I remember that…early 2000s internet was terrible.
Their anti-adblocking war is so aggressive that *EVEN THOUGH I PAY FOR PREMIUM TO NOT SEE ADS* they throttled my videos because I had an Adblocker on my Browser. So the whole "if you use an ad blocker allow ads on UA-cam or sign up for Premium" thing is totally bullshit. It wasn't until I whitelisted YT that the throttling stopped **again** despite me paying for Premium already.
Stop paying money to this horrible platform. Waste of money. I still don't get any ads and I use the same adblocker I've used for like 12 years - what it does now is it simply skips the ads immediately rather than blocking them entirely or showing any of the content. You just see a black screen that blinks twice (when it skips the video) and your ACTUAL video begins. Cost me $0
this happened to me as well, its beyond frustrating
SAME WTF
Lol what do you expect? They just want money, they’ll do anything to get it. Their goal IS NOT to offer a good user experience.
@@K9V1 and what ad block that is? I hate wasing 13 euro on that premium crap. It's only for those obnoxious ads, I don't care about/use any of those other features.
They don't seem to realise people only use adblockers because of the amount of ads now if it was like 1 or 2 short 5-10 second ads every half hour then a lot of people wouldn't mind it's when you get 4 or 5 ones you can't skip in a row every 10 minutes or something that annoys everyone
“You WILL view our TEMU ads. You WILL by from the slave sweatshop. You WILL view our AI ads. You WILL see them generate images of poop.”-UA-cam
UA-cam has gotten so greedy with their ads that they are smacking them on videos with channels that can't even be monitized, and are not giving the creators their cut, not to mention the absolutely insane number of them lately, ass platform that we're stuck with
THIS I"LL GO ON A COVER ARTIST CHANNEL AND GET ADS. TV is bad too watched a veritasium video with my mom and got like 20 mid roll ads
I am so scared of that, cause I am posting some birds videos from time to time, and they are pretty short videos. So if there is an ad on one of them, people may potentionally just close the video, since 30 seconds of content probably not worth 2 mins of ads, and won't see the cool stuff.
The browser that I use works to prevent me from wasting bandwidth. I highly recommend it. I'll name it in the next comment because I've found that Google likes to hide the things I say.
Brave browser still works for now. Highly recommend. Their search engine is pretty meh... But the browser does what I need it to.
I once got an 30 second unskippable ad just to watch a 30 second video. Sigh.
You CANNOT even see the news online without adblock…their ads should count as SA to your eyes.
I would NEVER click on a UA-cam ad, just on principle. And most often, if an ad pops up in a video I'm watching, I just close out the video and move on to something else. I used to listen to whole albums on UA-cam, but that's a horrible experience anymore. Now for music I go to the WEBSITES of college radio stations, or load my old CDs.
I would much rather watch an ad that I had the option to skip from the get go, than be forced to watch an ad for 5-30 seconds.
I've gotten 2 minute ads trying to watch my own 30 second videos. I used UA-cam on my Switch and watched a movie trailer, getting three or four ads in a row, multiple times and had to stop part way through, swearing to never use the app on Switch again.
If UA-cam wants people to dial back on using Adblockers, they need to dial back how much they shove ads in our faces (Not to mention holding said ads to the same restrictions as content creators, the creepy ads need to go). TV adverts are nowhere near as annoying and they have dedicated ad breaks on most channels!
just close out of the video and enter it again until the ads stop
Finally someone is talking about UA-cam ads on console, they are actually insufferable because it's 3 ads in a row sometimes
When TV ads get praised for restraint, you know UA-cam is in another fucking universe.
What's worse is when non-monetized videos still get ads. Worst of all: medical videos that require immediate knowledge.
I’m so damn glad I use older versions of UA-cam and don’t update them so that I don’t have to go through that bs
my adblock just rolled past 380,000 ads blocked and I primarily use UA-cam.. I've only had the adblock for about 5 or 6 years.. that's around 63,000 ads a year.. why am i being subjected to that much advertising when i have absolutely zero intention of purchasing anything that is being advertised..
I wonder if it's even in the interest of the advertiser. They got to be happy about the situation as they don't have to pay for somewhat pointless adspace since adblock users typically have a hatred against ads. For me they only cause me NOT to buy that product. Seriously, I have a no-buy list solely based on annoying ads
uBlock since install: about 2.5 mil blocked for me.
@@Ashvek Mu uBlock stopped 1.5 mln ads for me and I've been using it for like 6 months. That's insane and I've been primarily using YT.
@@Ashvek wow thats insane..
Blocked since install
1.048M (21%)
I just live Russia and there is no ads on YT and Twitch here. The most legal adblock ever
I'll say it again, make ads less intrusive and pervasive and just overall annoying, then I'll suffer their presence more often.
Hello, im a person that never understood ads to begin with. Im at a point now where i see an ad of a product and say to myself: "i will conciously never buy this product or use this service ever again".
Thats how much i hate ads. To me it seems nonsensicle and a waste of resources trying to force someone who clearly doesnt want to buy anything to watch an ad, only for them to still not buy it.
For me, it's not that I hate ads, it's that I hate crappy, uninspired, cookie cutter ads. And unfortunately, that's 99.9% of all ads out there.
And that's assuming the ads are actually relevant to me. If google is already harvesting data about my interests and watch habits, then can they at least make sure the ads are for something I actually care about? And not the constant spam of shitty mobile game ads that straight up lie to you?
Because there are people out there, that work differently than you and me. They *do* click on ads, they *do* buy some of the stuff that is advertised. Otherwise, ads would have been stopped looong ago, as there would have been *zero* value to the companies that buy ad-space from Google, so they would refuse to pay Google for the ad-space, and maintaining the ad-systems would have been pointless for Google.
The infrastructure behind this site, the development, the maintenance, the expansion and so on, *IS NOT FREE* . UA-cam *HAS* to make money somehow. Unless you have some genious idea, that magically pays the billions it takes to build and run a global video-hosting site, with 800 million++ videos, easily accessible to billions of people 24/7?
@@DrakeKillah bro the guy said he didn't understand ads... spoken specifically from their perspective. Never at any point did they say anything objective and you're out here talking down to them. We not allowed to just have an opinion anymore?
@@monkaeyes3417 I wasn’t talking down to anyone, I was just pointing out why ads are a thing. Sorry you’re offended on others behalf, by someone just giving some facts. Where the fuck did I stop *anyone* what so ever from having an opinion?
@@DrakeKillah please read your second paragraph and how passive aggressive it is.
You used a rhetorical question as a counterpoint to them. Never is that done in a non-passive aggressive manner.
shout-out to UA-cam for giving tv and console users 3+ unskippable ads per video, and auto playing sponsored "screensavers" whenever you're afk for more than 45 seconds. (theres also fake skippable ads that autoplay into more ads.)
Ive found a workaround for 90% of these shitty ads on tv,xbox,etc just press up when the ad is playing then press the exclamation button and press do not show ad anymore and it skips the whole ad segment
This is why I just prefer to mirror play at this point.
@@madman11fulIt doesn't work. Yes, it skips the ad but despite telling the Goddamn site to stop showing you the ad, it continues to show you the ad anyway! WTF???
Yup that's why I use my pc to watch on TV and not any of the apps. No way to get rid of the damn ads youtube vanced is ur friend. Free
This doesn't work on all ads. I've found some channels I watch have it so that this method doesn't work, at all. You can't even report the ad as inappropriate so you have to either sit through it or not bother watching the video.
I remember my brother and I would watch videos 2008ish and there was 1 ad every 4 vids or so. And if it was a longer ad (3-5 mins) we would let it play to “give the youtubers a nickel.” we would say. Then we’d run to the bathroom, grab a snack, do part of a chore etc. Then we’d come back when the ad finished, pause it, finish our tasks. Then we’d come back to a fully loaded, ad free video.
Beautiful, engaging, not frustrating. I wish youtube was still like that. Sometimes I do that system where I will let an ad play while I grab something. But the video never fully loads and I’ll unpause it and it immediately plays another ad.
As a UA-cam premium member I see this as an absolute win 🗿🗿
I don’t think I’ve consciously paid attention to a UA-cam ad in my life
same, but i still don’t want them
The last that i paid attention to a youtube ad was 2019 and it was when they were uploading the entire lego movie as an ad for the second one
The only one ive actually paid attention to (because its funny) is AdVenture Communist lmao
@@southernbrain691And that's the thing. If the ads were of good quality and not annoying, no-one would care.
When I see spammed ads It makes me hate the product.
I will neither watch ads nor purchase UA-cam premium
@@DellikkilleDhow does the boot taste
@@DellikkilleDwe got a real meat rider here
@@DellikkilleD How's the view down there buddy?
I mute and go to another tab for the duration of the ad.
@@DellikkilleDwhat flavor of shoe shine are you using today?
The breaking point for me was them putting ads on videos that weren’t even monetized. I tried watching my buddy’s video about baseball but I was stopped with 2 ads every 1-2 minutes. I spent 10 more minutes then I thought I would watching his video, and after all that I decided to get an adblocker. Now that adblockers are being cracked down on, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I don’t want to scroll on shorts all day, but I also don’t want to spend good video time watching ads.
boiling frog effect + cobra effect -> boiling cobra effect + frog effect
I used to watch UA-cam without any kind of adblock and was completely fine with it. It was when the volume and annoyance of the ads, double ads, countless mid video ads and everything google was doing to make the site completely unbearable that I switched it on. I would like to thank UA-cam for introducing me to the concept of an adblocker.
The more people that use ad block the more ads they gotta give to normal users to make up lost money
@@hutch1010 whomp womp , sorry but im not gonna sit through ads that for whatever reason are louder in volume than the video im trying to watch, the annoyance of the ads, double ads, countless mid video ads, AND that one time where the ad yes it was AN AD was some channels hour long podcast.
@@hutch1010 only a matter of time before everyone switches if this keeps up person not using adblockers getting bombarded by ads would likely try to find ways to get rid of the annoyance either they leave the site or they find an adblocker thus the cycle continues essentially UA-cam is shooting itself in the damn foot with this one.
I have adblock on my andriod tablet that works on the youtube app and have no idea why I didn't download it sooner
Back in 2020, The ADs were less worst, you do get the day where they show you the same car ad 2822189 times a day but it's pretty annoying.
Big tech really needs to stop with this "we own you" mentality. If they want people to get YT premium, then make it a premium service for premium content without all the asinine censorship. But no, they can't do that. They would rather go to war with their user base instead.
They tried making premium content, I think the only actually good show to come out of it was the Vsauce show.
What about matpats one@@Dissociare
@bluetintedchromee3881 I didn't watch much of matpats stuff. I'm sure there are a handful of good shows to come out of youtube premium. Alot of those shows are free now, only bonus clips are premium.
They don’t just think they own you, to them, you’re just the product to sell to targeted advertisers. You’re not their target audience, it’s the advertisers that pay them that are. To them, you’re not even the cow, you are just simply the grass that keeps them fed.
Or just make premium cheaper… like $1-2 for no ads. People will buy that for cheap. But these guys want $11-12 a month. For content that is free with ads.
In the past two months, sponsorblock has saved me 10 hours of ads in videos.
This is why adblock is so important.
There's a channel I watch, The Why Files, that has really fun sponsor reads and I'll watch every single one. The only complaint I have about YT ads is the break that comes in the middle of a sentence. Some channels organize their videos to accommodate ad breaks, but most don't.
It’s the same thing with a UA-camr I watch too, his name is tomatoanus
Frankly, my problem is that their ads do not seem to be curated *at all*. Sometimes they will randomly expect me to watch an infomercial-sized ad with no option to skip, other times they will sponsor ads that range from shady to borderline dangerous.
I have seen ads on here for literal scam sites that steal your data, as well as creepy and gross fetish games.
And youtube wonders why people want to block them.
the moment i recieved a 45 minute unskippable ad, i refreshed the page @_@ i did contemplate just not watching the video though. who ever thought forcing me to watch an ad longer than the video ive clicked on was going to work?
@@xSaraxMxNeffx yeh that was when i started to refuse to tolerate the ads anymore because some genius thought having unskippable ads. it is likely longer then the video but a ad that long what the actual fuck are they thinking who is going to sit through that ad
I was forced into adblock because an ad I saw on youtube ran malicious code and made me need to reinstall my OS.
i get some really unexpected and weird scam ads although they would ban a video with content like that, i keep thinking about people who did everything to protect their children from seeing all the weird things online and they suddenly just get a youtube ad with something unappropriate, ruining all their effort...
If UA-cam was less of a hostile company, I would gladly pay for it as I pay for multiple other similar services.
As it is they'll not get a cent.
I pay for it. Not for the company but the creators I watch
This, I won't pay a dime for UA-cam red because youtube have done nothing to deserve it.
They're scum, and if there were decent alternatives, I would be there. I already use other platforms when I can.
@@tomlxyz that's what I use Patreon, Subscribestar and Paypal for.
Yup. They coulda just been solid folks instead of monsters and I'd have happily paid up
If I ever start making over 130k I'll consider paying for it
Oh wait, I'm totally making over 130k lol
I'll just wait until they break Sponsorblock, and then I'll pay
UA-cam has to get rid of the yt shorts creators that I get on my page every time I try to scroll, it's either dropshippers, people who reuse the same video of them staring at a camera with "meme of the day", people with the "respect moments" and kids who reuse the same audio with over 500K videos, gorilla tag videos made by kids, and green screen kids, all of these are factors that made UA-cam unbearable to use because of all of them migrated from TikTok to UA-cam to make brainrot content
Can't wait to have a server side ad injection of the entire shrek movie on a 5 second meme video
UA-cam loves saying you should watch the ads because you are violating your end of the bargain, whilst also taking no responsibility for themselves hosting malware and spreading it through said ads. Until youtube is responsible for the malware they spread, I think ad block is gonna stay.
Did you mean ‘until youtube takes responsibility’?
EDIT: Capitalisation.
No, responsible. I fully advocate changes in law to make companies that serve malicious ads be liable for both damages as well as an additional deterring fee. I know that the company won't ever be willing to do that themselves.
I'm against adblock myself, but I do think that companies should be regulated in such a way that they get penalized if the ads contain malware. That is to say, I think people should have to see the ads, and the companies that run them should have to make sure they don't contain malware or anything sketchy. That is to say, if you use UA-cam, you have a responsibility to watch the ads, and UA-cam in turn has a responsibility not to run harmful ads. As long as UA-cam doesn't keep up their end of that bargain, I at least kind of get why people would use adblock, but I also think it's a case of acting like two wrongs make a right.
@@jeremyandrews3292 people like you always make me laugh, thanks for the chuckle bro
UA-cam: "You WILL watch the ads"
Me: "No, I don't think I will"
Nice Scent of a Woman reference
I love how they do this but they dont know about the "refresh" trick
I'm 10 years going strong without ads on youtube, I ain't about to stop now. I WILL find a countermeasure.
UA-cam: Ads ads ads
Me: giggles in Revanced
When im on my phone without adblock and i click a midly interesting video and an ad starts playing, i just scroll further and watch a different video.
the biggest problems I have with ads is - most of them are just scams. Mobile Games that are predatory messes just wanting my CC number, bad products that don't do anything good, etc. The few that are decent - are heavily outweighed by things I will NEVER click on or care about.
the second thing is - breaking of the content. Ads tend to be ABSOLUTELY aimed intentionally at 'high attention spots' of videos, and nothing interrupts a conversation, argument, information, or just gameplay excitement more than an abrupt ad that literally just stops everything else.
at least with TV shows, they had "ad breaks" where the shows were LITERALLY scheduled around them, so that stories weren't interrupted and jarring to come back to. There was a build up - a "and well be right back" and then we came back, there might be a small recap and boom right back into the story.
now lets combine those with the reality of ads - most of them are just skimming your data, most of them just want to get your info to use to make more money from, they don't actually care if you buy their product, they just want visit to their site, or you to google the product to get it hits.
You are absolutely bang on with your point. Especially with how cable TV used to deal with ads. It was designed to be seamless so that it wouldn't piss off the viewers who were watching their favourite shows.
Also got a few times where I tried watching short videos and had to watch ads for longer than the video was. They need to time their ads better and not have them take up more than a small percent of the video's length.
@@mira12825one time I tried to show someone a 3 second meme. It had a 1 minute unskippable ad
ngl, i've never seen any weird, sus, or scummy ads unless it was on the right side, but if you're on pc, i recommend you to use enhancer for youtube cuz you can skip ads using the extension's speed
@@mira12825 if you're on a phone, you can close and reopen the video very quickly until it doesn't play an ad.
One thing that fills me with joy is no matter how much money UA-cam and Google throws at the adblock issue, there will ALWAYS be someone who finds a way to block it. ALWAYS.
The greed of the big guy is weak against the frustration of the little guy
It's the piracy thing all over again. It doesn't matter how much DRM you throw at it, the DRM will be cracked. Just like the ads will be blocked.
Never underestimate the power of a software developer with too much free time
I'm 10 years going strong without ads on youtube, I ain't about to stop now. I WILL find a countermeasure.
*"You will watch ads and you will be happy"*
- UA-cam _probably_