YouTube Ads Are Getting Insane and I Hate It.

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  • Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
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    0:00 - Intro
    01:05 - tHaNkS tO oUr SpOnSoR
    1:43 - How does Ad work
    3:50 - UA-cam's Automated Tools Suck
    5:40 - Various Potential Solutions and why they suck
    10:43 - Conclusion
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  • @GiantGrantGames
    @GiantGrantGames  Рік тому +32185

    UA-cam's Automated system wanted to put 5 midroll ads in this 12 minute video by the way. Absolutely incredible.

    • @Eeddtg
      @Eeddtg Рік тому +2200

      And that's why I use an ad blocker all the time

    • @devonoltmanns5453
      @devonoltmanns5453 Рік тому +980

      It’s becoming more and more money oriented unfortunately, many UA-camrs are going that way too so they don’t do anything

    • @joejoemyo
      @joejoemyo Рік тому +244

      Machines don't speak irony

    • @joelsalyer5544
      @joelsalyer5544 Рік тому +462

      Dude this was the most based fucking video about ads I've ever seen. Thanks for peeling back the curtain a bit I didn't even know about adblock and google in 2023, gonna have to use firefox I guess.

    • @jfried6754
      @jfried6754 Рік тому +174

      When I watch youtube on my TV and can't have an adblocker running the ads I see are really random as well. Absolutely no relation to my interests. It makes me wonder whether online advertising is one big charade and a lot of tech companies are doomed the moment it gets revealed it doesn't work anywhere near as well as thought.

  • @silcrow1820
    @silcrow1820 9 місяців тому +2820

    I was totally against using adblocker. Then, one day, i was forced to watch a 20 seconds unskippable ad for a 6 second clip. It was my breaking point

    • @spongedog0013
      @spongedog0013 6 місяців тому +187

      I went to ad blocker after getting a 3 minute unksippable ad. That was back in 2017 and when my ad blocker got booted off the site last week I was shocked at the amount of ads being constantly shoved in my face vs the very few ads I would get back in 2017.

    • @henryjohnson-ville3834
      @henryjohnson-ville3834 6 місяців тому +117

      Seriously! Videos under a minute can’t have ads, make this an official rule UA-cam!
      I too experienced that where a funny, dumb 12-second video had an ad. 😑

    • @jaymo7703
      @jaymo7703 6 місяців тому +84

      I started using ad blocker when youtube started demonitizing creators for no reason. I never looked back. Now, I would assert that it isn't safe to browse the internet in general without an ad blocker.

    • @boomertunes9924
      @boomertunes9924 6 місяців тому +51

      I was never against adblock because I always found it annoying to use the internet in general while being heckled by ten thousand ads per square inch. UA-cam used to be largely hobbyists sharing something they're passionate about. Now the focus is on making money. It's not necessarily bad to want to try and make some income from a thing you enjoy, but most of youtube these days just feels so soulless (just like the million ads YT wants to force upon everyone).
      Also, I just angry when I see most ads, so avoiding all of them is just better for my well-being.

    • @OctEddie
      @OctEddie 6 місяців тому +35

      My moment was when the ads started to get minutes long and became straight up scams and snake oil products.

  • @pazma1
    @pazma1 8 місяців тому +2400

    One thing I hate recently is that there's a specific ad for an online casino that I've told YT to stop showing me and tagging it as inappropriate. I've done this over 100 times, and I'm still being shown that same ad constantly. If I were someone who has a gambling addiction or something, that could be a really bad advert to show me. UA-cam doesn't care. Google is scum.

    • @patrickhaley1312
      @patrickhaley1312 6 місяців тому +132

      Oh yeah, that has never worked and likely never will.

    • @lamidene8139
      @lamidene8139 6 місяців тому +1

      Gambling, fake medical advice, finance scams, adult games, youtube ads are becoming the same dreck you see at the bottom of clickbait news blogs

    • @spicywaffle_
      @spicywaffle_ 6 місяців тому +224

      yeah, that feature also doesn't work with some UA-cam channels, if they rake in enough money UA-cam will ignore your "don't recommend this channel" and they will pop up in your recommended

    • @Palmtop_User
      @Palmtop_User 6 місяців тому +105

      I dont like reeses cups. Just something about them, even looking at them, makes my teeth feel weird. No matter how many times i told youtube to stop showing me their ads theyd persist. Not only that it was one of the ads theyd show repeatedly (think several times in an hour). Thats genuinely a big reason as to why i ad block

    • @stooglesgoogles7246
      @stooglesgoogles7246 6 місяців тому +130

      I’m tired of getting porn ads on youtube (i’m not joking, they show up under videos and it’s horrifying)

  • @Gentleman_Gibbs
    @Gentleman_Gibbs 5 місяців тому +750

    Disabled adblocker for a few days when the three video strike thing rolled in. I was shocked by how aggressive YT ads have got. Not to mention how low quality most of these ads are, some are outright scams. Having UA-cam on in the background, I realised I was 5 minutes in on an unskippable ad, so I could revisit a 30 second segment on a tutorial video. Which I had to watch another ad for for skipping through the video. Mental!

    • @sundaedog
      @sundaedog 5 місяців тому

      if you use brave and ignore the crypto BS, it actually has a really good adblocker, even going up to skipping ads on Spotify. I would recommend it if you only use yt or Spotify for that background music

    • @anonion8755
      @anonion8755 5 місяців тому +46

      Having to watch two 15 second unskippable ads for a 3 second clip

    • @angrydiver_4220
      @angrydiver_4220 5 місяців тому

      There is a modded app client that is add free can t name it due to shadowbanning comments, so try to find it on google you won t regret.

    • @sadsworth4605
      @sadsworth4605 5 місяців тому +5

      U block ori

    • @jpraise6771
      @jpraise6771 5 місяців тому

      AdBlock plus on your desktop.

  • @gustavovargas8716
    @gustavovargas8716 6 місяців тому +166

    This is what happens when a an app doesnt have competition
    They will simply do wharever they want, without filters and low consequences

    • @MCArt25
      @MCArt25 4 місяці тому +6

      YT doesn't have competition because there is no money to be made off hosting tons of amateur videos. The only way it makes revenue at all is by enshittification

    • @Djuntas
      @Djuntas 4 місяці тому

      @@MCArt25 Nothing will ever compete with youtube. Twitter, reddit and twitch...What do they all have in common? They make no money. You cant compete with google or facebook cause they take 95% of add money. To big to fail.

    • @chir0pter
      @chir0pter 3 місяці тому +2

      @@MCArt25 i'm not sure about that any more. UA-cam gets trillions of views, advertisers need to be here, plus there's the personal data to sell. If UA-cam really tries to be cable TV then someone else will spring up. Already Twitter is looking to move content creators over.

    • @DolusVulpes
      @DolusVulpes 23 дні тому

      ​​@@MCArt25if that was the case youtube wouldnt have been around as long as it has, since the aggressive monetization isnt even close to nearly as old as the site is

  • @bluelotus.society
    @bluelotus.society Рік тому +3072

    The worst part is getting punished with random mid-roll ads for skipping around the video - even if you're just rewinding it by 60 seconds because you got distracted and didn't pay that much attention.

    • @carsonhunt4642
      @carsonhunt4642 Рік тому +177

      Yea I went full Adblock cuz of it.
      Tough on IOS but there’s ways to do it.
      I don’t even feel bad for content creators anymore anyways, 90% stretch their videos out on purpose for extra time for extra ads. Find I usually watch less than half of a video these days. UA-cam has gone downhill since the adpocolypse a decade ago.

    • @Fordan43
      @Fordan43 Рік тому +42

      @@carsonhunt4642 Adpocolypse lol, that's gonna be my catchphrase, I don't know what for but it will.

    • @PeterCamberwick
      @PeterCamberwick Рік тому +8

      Yup, that is bloody annoying.

    • @isaacshepard1474
      @isaacshepard1474 Рік тому +4

      It hurts me emotionally

    • @sena9245
      @sena9245 Рік тому +5

      I just couldn't stand the ads anymore, I enjoy using the app on my phone and my tablet, had to go premium :/

  • @stephenblessed92
    @stephenblessed92 6 місяців тому +81

    I love it when an ad , for something I'm never going to buy, interrupts a music video I'm watching. Really enhances the experience.

  • @RumpleVonStiltskin735
    @RumpleVonStiltskin735 4 місяці тому +18

    I think my breaking point was listening to a playlist while driving wondering ”Just how long IS this add?” pulling over and discovering I was 5 minutes in to an add that was 2 hours 41 minutes long. I could not believe what I was seeing there.

    • @dakotalake9084
      @dakotalake9084 4 місяці тому +2

      I found a way not to have any ads..... If I say what it is, UA-cam will know so do some research for yourself.....

    • @Quick50
      @Quick50 11 днів тому

      @@dakotalake9084tell us youtube aint abouta look through these comments

  • @TheHonoredMadman
    @TheHonoredMadman Рік тому +2895

    UA-cam be playing full documentaries as ads if you don't skip. Its insane

    • @vwatlas
      @vwatlas Рік тому +304

      the amount of times I've fallen asleep and woken up to hour+ long documentaries and shit is insane 😩

    • @sharonefee1426
      @sharonefee1426 Рік тому +30

      First time hearing this. The longest I had was... 10 minutes? And it was one time

    • @andrewgrant6516
      @andrewgrant6516 Рік тому +232

      I've woken up to two hour Trump propaganda. And also ISIS recruitment videos. Trust me, they both fuck up your recommendations for months. Never enable autoplay.

    • @PerfectProtagonist
      @PerfectProtagonist Рік тому +87

      @@andrewgrant6516
      I will never understand why it's on by default.

    • @khumokwezimashapa2245
      @khumokwezimashapa2245 Рік тому +49

      Bruh legit. I saw a 9 hour ad once. It was ridiculous

  • @skittslol1407
    @skittslol1407 9 місяців тому +1493

    UA-cam is becoming the TV style program we all came here to escape.

    • @kharikhy-ree2242
      @kharikhy-ree2242 7 місяців тому +91

      This comment. 🎉 Yeah I cut the cable in 2015 because I hate commercials and excessive ads, Streaming and UA-cam were suppose to be the escape. But Big Corp found us. It's pure predatory and invasive.

    • @Katie_Kat81
      @Katie_Kat81 7 місяців тому

      if we want tv and commercials/ads we will pay for cable lolz how stupid, greedy, and selfish is the youtube ceo seriously.

    • @TieDyedShawn
      @TieDyedShawn 7 місяців тому +18

      @@kharikhy-ree2242 I hate tv because of the ads. I have my own channel and I don't care about the money. Just want people to enjoy there lives. Have a good day. UA-cam even blocked me using adblock for a bit and then they gave up. Have a good day.

    • @ajcalvo95
      @ajcalvo95 6 місяців тому +12

      Regrettably, that's how the business goes. Back in the day, they invented cable TV as an ad-free alternative (just like YT premium): you pay extra, no ads for you.

    • @rainingdreams
      @rainingdreams 6 місяців тому +22

      They're actually becoming worse. At least when we watch tv, the commercial breaks are very intentional and don't just cut off the show in the middle of a sentence. Plus we can just change the channel during commercial breaks. Or even fast forward through them if you recorded or paused it

  • @dakotalake9084
    @dakotalake9084 4 місяці тому +15

    The worst is when you listen to a wonderful meditation music, eyes closed, relaxed and BAM, a stupid loud ad starts......

    • @trevorwylie5882
      @trevorwylie5882 4 місяці тому +7

      There is a hint of evil in youtube

    • @sarahneels4331
      @sarahneels4331 2 місяці тому +3

      I know right! How else are we supposed to listen to meditative or background music without ads interrupting it?? It’s not fair we can’t listen to it in peace

    • @dakotalake9084
      @dakotalake9084 2 місяці тому

      @@sarahneels4331 I found a way to solve it. Get a VPN and set it to Albania or another country where UA-cam doesn't run ads 🙂

    • @dakotalake9084
      @dakotalake9084 2 місяці тому

      @@sarahneels4331 hint....get a VPN

  • @JRS06
    @JRS06 5 місяців тому +19

    What's worse is that they just select the same five ads to show you over and over again, and it's rarely ever for something you actually want. You just get sick of hearing the same ads over and over again. Now you can't actually watch a video for more than 2 minutes without an ad interrupting it, and it's a nightmare during long videos. Even worse is the fact you can get ads longer than the video you want to watch, e.g. a 40 second ad for a 3 second video. I tried an ad blocker in the hopes that it would improve the situation, but then youtube got petty and told me I just flat out couldn't watch any videos whatsoever until is disabled the blocker.

    • @3twibles4sweetrevenge
      @3twibles4sweetrevenge Місяць тому +1

      Literally. The same 5 ads get repeated every 5 minutes its insanity

  • @iBoujin
    @iBoujin Рік тому +34237

    The removal of the yellow tick indicating mid roll ads was the most infuriating change to me. Being jumped by ads with 0 warning is the absolute worst.

    • @TheTber123
      @TheTber123 Рік тому +3617

      Ad jump scare

    • @mimi-fm7hz
      @mimi-fm7hz Рік тому +1822

      Idk if it’s still there but they added a 3 second countdown until ads at one point, so useless and it looked like the skip ad button so confusing as well.

    • @cameronwilsey9334
      @cameronwilsey9334 Рік тому +683

      @@mimi-fm7hz I get that on PC but not mobile

    • @iBoujin
      @iBoujin Рік тому +625

      @@mimi-fm7hz Not on mobile. Admittedly use adblock on PC so not sure, but I know it does the countdown on TV apps.

    • @eg-draw
      @eg-draw Рік тому +664

      Especially when you are in the middle of the asmr video half asleep 👍👍👍

  • @SeenGod
    @SeenGod Рік тому +1780

    how about the fact that UA-cam will demonetize some channels for not being ad-friendly, and yet they’ll still show ads on there 😵‍💫

    • @fragglegoth
      @fragglegoth Рік тому +452

      And the ads themselves don't abide by the ad-friendly rules.

    • @TheManWhoErasedHisNane
      @TheManWhoErasedHisNane Рік тому +125

      @@fragglegoth Ah YT being hypocritical.

    • @ripwednesdayadams
      @ripwednesdayadams Рік тому +139

      I hate using UA-cam. I don’t want to support them at all but that’s there’s no other good option for long form content.

    • @deebea6364
      @deebea6364 Рік тому +106

      They also don’t screen their own ads properly... like UA-cam will play straight up scam ads or things that should not be on UA-cam... I feel like UA-cam probably doesn’t pay creators properly for google ads either as UA-cam is a part of google, so I feel like they just through their own ads in when advertisers aren’t buying up as much

    • @mikepartridge6396
      @mikepartridge6396 Рік тому +13

      @@ripwednesdayadams you're not supporting them if you use adblock

  • @darshil2317
    @darshil2317 6 місяців тому +184

    I have actually developed an immunity to ads. Everytime I see an ad I completely zone out and could not tell you what the ad was about let alone the name of the brand. Maybe its because I have been exposed to so much ads that its all white noise to me

    • @Average_Internet_DMC_420
      @Average_Internet_DMC_420 6 місяців тому +21

      adblock, helps to not waste your precious limited time on this god forsaken planet

    • @darshil2317
      @darshil2317 5 місяців тому

      @@Average_Internet_DMC_420 Gives me more time for edging

    • @ildikoedit9110
      @ildikoedit9110 5 місяців тому +7

      I have been using youtube since 2006 and I don't remember I have ever got interested in any of the ads or clicked any of them let alone buying anything.... even if the ads are 'personalised' by the algorhythm...

    • @-.--Y..-U...S..-U..-.F
      @-.--Y..-U...S..-U..-.F 5 місяців тому

      ​@@ildikoedit9110nahhh im insterented in all that scam ads. An ad promoting an app that can give me 1000$ per day by just watching youtube videos. I have to click them. I need to click all of them.

    • @silver1407
      @silver1407 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Average_Internet_DMC_420precisely

  • @ninawinchester5125
    @ninawinchester5125 5 місяців тому +13

    i miss when youtube ads were just a small overlay box on the bottom of the video, that would either disappear after 20 seconds or when you click on the x to close it

  • @OrigionalCigarette
    @OrigionalCigarette Рік тому +9645

    I really hate that youtube gives no regulations to its ads, yet is extremely regulates what youtubers can do.

    • @VampKink12
      @VampKink12 Рік тому +172

      A UA-camr can put 15 ads for 5 minutes and only two of those ads will be seen.

    • @lunaredelvour2972
      @lunaredelvour2972 Рік тому +437

      I remember when Saberspark did a whole video essay on this, focusing on mobile game ads. I'm still infuriated at the thought

    • @bensmith8682
      @bensmith8682 Рік тому +71

      One's paying.

    • @pontosanaz6485
      @pontosanaz6485 Рік тому +189

      Becouse, one is paying, and the other is getting payed

    • @ExplodedMrT
      @ExplodedMrT Рік тому +151

      Its because many youtubers let themselves get stepped on when stuff like this happens, so many times I've seen a youtuber make a video or tweet that youtube is screwing them over, but their actions to deal with it are to just sit there and hope youtube "sees the error or their ways", because most youtubers can't afford to sue the platform or don't want the trouble even if they could afford the effort. The only way youtube will improve is if a proper exodus happened where the big youtubers like markiplier, mr beast, ninja, Marques Brownlee, penguinz0, etc. move to another platform which would encourage the smaller youtubers to move as well.

  • @bobbydirtamiyer2151
    @bobbydirtamiyer2151 Рік тому +4448

    You know what grinds my gears? The hour long ads. I'd like to be able to set my phone down and work without walking over to it and skipping an ad every 3 mins.

    • @TheJingles007
      @TheJingles007 Рік тому +330

      Sorry, daddy google says you need to pay their fee if you don’t want to be minorly annoyed consistently

    • @gay4pay882
      @gay4pay882 Рік тому +6

      Ads arent hour long

    • @bobbydirtamiyer2151
      @bobbydirtamiyer2151 Рік тому +304

      @@gay4pay882 Your "aren't" needs an apostrophe or it isn't a word. You've completely left out the word "an" and you're missing a period at the end. If you're going to troll people, at least form a complete thought.
      p.s. - yes they are

    • @gay4pay882
      @gay4pay882 Рік тому +9

      @@bobbydirtamiyer2151 umm im NOT effing GAY wtf ? an ad not ower lonng 😂🤣

    • @spidi500
      @spidi500 Рік тому +322

      @@gay4pay882 Your brain is as smooth as butter bruh

  • @osaabd390
    @osaabd390 6 місяців тому +17

    The USA is just a crazy place. Where I live UA-cam isn’t allowed to show you more than one ad at the beginning of the video, and that’s by law.

  • @tombuilder1475
    @tombuilder1475 6 місяців тому +54

    the sheer amount of scam ads is what annoys me!

  • @sherpajones
    @sherpajones 7 місяців тому +3796

    This video has aged very, VERY well.

    • @kholdstare90
      @kholdstare90 6 місяців тому +267

      You know it's aged incredibly well when the only "incorrect" part is the price for premium being WAY lower than current.

    • @TimorDa
      @TimorDa 6 місяців тому +72

      Yeah I thought it's old a few weeks lol but yeah the things are actually much worse now

    • @KaspYAR
      @KaspYAR 6 місяців тому +19

      UA-cam premium, in Australia, is $17 ($16.99)

    • @neogivxapwntcpaa
      @neogivxapwntcpaa 6 місяців тому +28

      Ublock origin is best

    • @jermfanaccount
      @jermfanaccount 6 місяців тому +41

      @@KaspYAR is that per month? if so there's no way i'm spending nearly 20 bucks on youtube per month when i already have an adblocker get outta here

  • @joelhatterini6392
    @joelhatterini6392 Рік тому +2392

    I remember a couple years back I tried turning off adblock to support people I watch, immediately regretted it, and turned it right back on.

  • @yvdiycshcuobjsjobfgvuvihd
    @yvdiycshcuobjsjobfgvuvihd 5 місяців тому +8

    i got a 20 second unskippable ad for this video

    • @JAYDEE-007
      @JAYDEE-007 5 місяців тому

      Sign up for UA-cam premium and you won't get ads.

    • @yvdiycshcuobjsjobfgvuvihd
      @yvdiycshcuobjsjobfgvuvihd 5 місяців тому +3

      @@JAYDEE-007 not sure why i'd pay just to not have ads shoved in my face

    • @user-xf5fq4yy2i
      @user-xf5fq4yy2i 5 місяців тому +1

      @@JAYDEE-007 "buy youtube premium" -UA-cam employee

    • @LegendWolfA
      @LegendWolfA 5 місяців тому +1

      UA-cam employee spotted
      Yt premium is waaay too overpriced. Id rather just save for 3 months and use that money to buy myself a brand new video game

  • @jackhazardous4008
    @jackhazardous4008 5 місяців тому +8

    I can literally detect when a youtuber is about to speak about their sponsor and skip forward. However I keep noticing these sponsors getting longer and longer. Like 5 years ago maybe it'd be a 20 second shoutout but now these sponsorships are regularly taking up not only 90 seconds of the video, but they're also placed in the video specifically to take over the preview you get while hovering over a video. I know because skipping 30 seconds used to be enough. Then they made these ads longer, so I skip forward another 30 seconds. They keep getting longer

    • @3twibles4sweetrevenge
      @3twibles4sweetrevenge Місяць тому +1

      What i think is nuts is when they have a 2:30 ad in a 10 minute video like holy fuck dude what are you doing 😂

  • @f.d.5173
    @f.d.5173 9 місяців тому +4330

    I don't see why companies think forcing us to watch their crap would convince us to buy their product. More often then not, the people I'm around agree that if they get a harassing ad, they'll purposely NOT consume that company's stuff.

    • @jacobturner4815
      @jacobturner4815 9 місяців тому +190

      Ah, but you HAVE heard of us....
      Repetition was proven effective a long time ago for influencing silly human minds. If you are bored and want to try a new game, you may go browse the app store for a long time filtering past all the stuff you already tried or doesn't look appealing.. but eventually you will be lazy and search for a thing you have seen and looked passably interesting.
      Or you will see ads for easy cooking so often you will eventually decide you are unreasonable to just assume it is a scam, and that introductory pricing is reasonable, isn't it?
      Or a friend will mention they are looking for X thing you have never used... but you do know ONE name of such a product, and you do want to help your friend, right? Surely if they advertise that much, they must be good enough to be popular and profitable, so it is a decent option?
      Right...?

    • @jzero4813
      @jzero4813 9 місяців тому

      Because you're all so selfish and f'd up that your conscience and morals are not enough to make you pay for something you use and enjoy and that requires the dedicated and sustained effort of a huge collective of hard-working humans to deliver to you. Content creators aren't your personal slaves. Why should all those people work their butt off every single day to deliver content to you that you insist you deserve to watch absolutely for free? In fact, why aren't you making me a sandwich right now? Jerk...

    • @spacebassist
      @spacebassist 9 місяців тому +501

      @@jacobturner4815 ease off on the misanthropy dude, lmao. What you're saying isn't impossible but some of us have standards and uphold our values and refuse to engage with this shit
      Also who the hell has played a mobile game in 10 years that wouldn't fit the category of "silly human"?

    • @ixl911ixl
      @ixl911ixl 9 місяців тому

      @@spacebassist
      Unfortunately, he’s 100% correct. Our feeble monkey brains do not have the ability to overcome the power of basic repetition and brand recognition.
      Maybe on an individual person by person level, but as a collective? No. We’re fucked. Slaves to our advertisement overlords.

    • @olesvren2906
      @olesvren2906 9 місяців тому +177

      In addition I get mostly completely irrelevant ads for me. I am a male, and for a period i got lots of ads for menstruation products. I have also gotten a lot of ads for what seems like pyramid scheem, or general "get rich quick" scams

  • @AdamBorseti
    @AdamBorseti Рік тому +5840

    Watching UA-cam without an ad blocker is basically the same as watching TV now. There's occasionally some shows between the commercials.

    • @anonyshinki
      @anonyshinki Рік тому +221

      Native ads being interrupted by UA-cam ads!

    • @lulu....
      @lulu.... Рік тому +286

      WORSE than TV

    • @supernovero
      @supernovero Рік тому +154

      I was trying to watch an episode of the virginian with my father in law (never seen it before and that episode is now one of my favorite pieces of television) but it was hell to watch. The episodes are just over half an hour but it's hour long block for just one bc they play 20 minutes of ads every so often. It was grueling, and they weren't even natural ad breaks, you could tell most of them were edited. Only so many times they can try to sell us Medicare supplement programs

    • @marielcarey4288
      @marielcarey4288 Рік тому +95

      @@supernovero the cable TV experience. I'm amazed my parents still put up with it for so many years

    • @zoruafox7512
      @zoruafox7512 Рік тому +31

      @@lulu.... no no no. You can always still skip adds by reporting them.

  • @ciara2892
    @ciara2892 5 місяців тому +10

    What gets me is lifesaving videos like how to perform cpr and sleep videos getting ads before and during.

    • @Colin12475
      @Colin12475 Місяць тому +2

      Money means more to youtube than human lives.

  • @zwiftingwithdemonhunter
    @zwiftingwithdemonhunter 5 місяців тому +6

    I'm so sick of YT ads. If all ads were skipable It wouldn't be so bad, but it appears they are going to unskipable more and more. Just an hour ago, I started a video that had two pre-roll ads, the first one unskipable and 15 seconds long. The second one was 1:45 long and skipable, which I did, obviously. What was frustrating was the video was only about six minutes long and they shoved another set of ads in around the three minute mark.
    And they wonder why people use ad blockers.

  • @nikoninen
    @nikoninen Рік тому +2338

    A single mid roll ad that's 10x louder than any actual YT video is infinitely worse than a sponsored 1minute segment that I can easily skip just going a minute ahead.

    • @hunterlawrence3573
      @hunterlawrence3573 Рік тому +27

      Exactly

    • @deseuryderia
      @deseuryderia Рік тому +271

      especially with chapters. youtubers who mark their sponsored segments in their chapters so they’re easier to skip are getting first dibs to heaven

    • @michaelb4538
      @michaelb4538 Рік тому +155

      You know they make the ads 70 - 90% louder than the video you're watching incase you've nodded off after a hard day at work. How dare you be tired we have products you dont want to sell you.

    • @LegendStormcrow
      @LegendStormcrow Рік тому +2

      Yup...

    • @thefrogggy100
      @thefrogggy100 Рік тому +8

      @@michaelb4538 Is there evidence to support this claim

  • @O.LEO.N
    @O.LEO.N Рік тому +2092

    Not only are the advertisements themselves getting worse in quality, but the ads are also getting so much longer and unskippable. Not to mention the way they just implemented double ads out of nowhere.

    • @colixart
      @colixart 10 місяців тому +97

      I’ve gotten two unskippable 30 second ads before, at that point I just refresh the UA-cam page. I’d do anything for someone else, like MrBeast to buy UA-cam

    • @spacebassist
      @spacebassist 10 місяців тому +43

      ​@@ravenloransthat's cool son, I use adblock too and love it with the way things are but I also watch on mobile pretty often. We're suffering here. Please don't say "buy a computer" since a lot of "normies" aren't gonna do that for UA-cam

    • @Rumym8
      @Rumym8 9 місяців тому +20

      @@colixart idc if i spent a min refreshing the page im getting to an ad that i can skip

    • @ChasingDragons420
      @ChasingDragons420 9 місяців тому +14

      There's no such thing as a good quality ad.

    • @toky9066
      @toky9066 9 місяців тому +3

      @@spacebassist yeah I often watch it on mobile and you can report the ad, which makes yt skip all of them.

  • @Raysilly
    @Raysilly 5 місяців тому +3

    i got an adroll that was FOUR ADS LONG. two long ones, one short one, and on around 16 seconds long. this is insane.

  • @marichat9332
    @marichat9332 5 місяців тому +5

    i noticed how there were always 2 ads before most videos and they were both 30 seconds and sometimes unskippable. i knew something was different

  • @BaIaho
    @BaIaho 9 місяців тому +825

    I once got an entire Chinese movie for an ad, literally 1h50m long. Shit was insane.

    • @niaralosusa
      @niaralosusa 8 місяців тому +117

      …similar happened to me recently. Selected a 12 minute UA-cam video and a 92 minute movie/ad came up.

    • @unexpected2475
      @unexpected2475 8 місяців тому +62

      I feel that. I remember when Vice used to put out entire documentaries as ads, probably around 10 years ago. Thankfully they were skippable, but they were pretty inexplicable.

    • @moinsen117
      @moinsen117 7 місяців тому

      ​@@divinelightshineshut up

    • @Foxthatisaplush
      @Foxthatisaplush 7 місяців тому

      dude, this is the youtube comments section. your gonna see this everywhere.@@divinelightshine

    • @AverageDunce
      @AverageDunce 6 місяців тому +10

      I can tell that somebody got their social credits

  • @Lukepuke311
    @Lukepuke311 Рік тому +3755

    There was a time where double ads didn’t exist and you only couldn’t skip ads under ~7 seconds

    • @creativitysubs9935
      @creativitysubs9935 Рік тому +504

      As it should be. Nobody changes their mind about a product after 5 seconds in.
      You only annoy your potential customers.
      And no, I will never ever buy from gilette, rolls-royce, and some other personal grudges.

    • @1000-THR_Benjamin
      @1000-THR_Benjamin Рік тому +2

      @@creativitysubs9935 yeah, after 70 gilette ads i wont buy your fucking shaving tool

    • @memunist5765
      @memunist5765 Рік тому +150

      @@creativitysubs9935 After I started using adblock on all platfroms those grudges quickly dissappeared with me. It really is nice and far, far more enjoyable

    • @Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum
      @Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum Рік тому

      @@creativitysubs9935 Bro I thought I was reading my own comment, Fuck Gillete

    • @Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum
      @Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum Рік тому +29

      @@memunist5765 is there adblock for mobile?

  • @Wayte13
    @Wayte13 5 місяців тому +4

    My favorite thing is when UA-cam saves my place at the end of a video I watched. So I click, get an ad. Then manually go back to the beginning, and get another ad.

  • @HanzoWasabiSauce
    @HanzoWasabiSauce 6 місяців тому +3

    When I’m not watching on premium, I mute the video and scroll down. After I think it’s over I scroll up and unmute. So doesn’t matter who wins the bid, I’m not watching or listening and idk what’s trying to be sold to me ☺️. Sometimes I’ll click over to another tab watch another video while it’s playing but they do this thing where they make the ad stop playing until you come back. It doesn’t always happen though so not sure of the exact circumstances yet.

  • @UsedBubblehead
    @UsedBubblehead Рік тому +1773

    Something I find surprising is how few people seem to remember that you used to be able to listen to UA-cam videos with your mobile device's screen off. I'm forever bitter about them removing this feature particularly and selling it back to the users as I used it all the time back in the day. I wish more people talked about this sort of stuff whenever Premium gets mentioned because its absolutely infuriating and scummy.

    • @WhyYoutubeWhy
      @WhyYoutubeWhy Рік тому

      yeah thisn was retarded like wtf does it change

    • @luke4502
      @luke4502 Рік тому +248

      YES! I've never heard anyone else mention this. While this is a small example, the fact that technology was ever not oppressive will be lost to the sands of time... or more likely, deliberately memory-holed. It's sad as hell.

    • @0grey0
      @0grey0 Рік тому +120

      Fr I was just thinking about this today man, fuck google and their greed

    • @doofus9007
      @doofus9007 Рік тому +29

      newpipe solves

    • @Popthebop
      @Popthebop Рік тому +36

      Pssss There's a way, Well on iOS there is. if you pl@y the VIDEO @nd swipe out, you can play without premium. You kinda have to fiddle around until you figure it out but it's very possible possible, I do it all the time!
      On god if UA-cam sees this and changes it I'll actually throw them in the trash, I'm on my Witts end with my beloved/hated hellsite that is UA-cam.
      I'll actually move to Vinmeio, at this point. or go back to live tv, after 5 years.

  • @shivers5718
    @shivers5718 Рік тому +6755

    That fake sponsor segment was so realistic that SponsorBlock actually skipped it ☠️

    • @g80gzt
      @g80gzt Рік тому +884

      Sponsorblock is people manually submitting segments. They mark a start and an end, say what that segment is, and submit. People then tune what sponsorblock skips or prompts or ignores.

    • @creativitysubs9935
      @creativitysubs9935 Рік тому +463

      @@g80gzt The sponsor seemed halfway believable in the first seconds.
      I only got it when I saw the title of the chapter.

    • @Foxygamer0101
      @Foxygamer0101 Рік тому +153

      The person who put the segment probably got reported, it goes agains't the rules

    • @gioworno
      @gioworno Рік тому +79

      It also got marked as a sponsor segment in yt vanced lol

    • @cilian8462
      @cilian8462 Рік тому +127

      @@gioworno vanced has integrated sponsorblock

  • @stikkerpaper
    @stikkerpaper 5 місяців тому +3

    when the ads are strategically placed before the video climax 😒

  • @MrCanadaben
    @MrCanadaben 6 місяців тому +7

    I'm 100% certain that if UA-cam reverted back to how the ads were in the beginning, only having 1 or 2 before a video, the number of adblock-users would go down drastically

  • @s.m.9871
    @s.m.9871 Рік тому +5999

    I’m gonna be honest with you, I’d rather watch an in-video sponsorship than a UA-cam midroll ad any day of the week

    • @alicedelarge
      @alicedelarge Рік тому +814

      yeah, at least some people make it entertaining.

    • @ianpfeifer3284
      @ianpfeifer3284 Рік тому +31

      Same

    • @felipeandmichelleshorts
      @felipeandmichelleshorts Рік тому +594

      @@alicedelarge and at least the creator is getting paid more fairly

    • @mr.starrydoesbeyblade
      @mr.starrydoesbeyblade Рік тому +481

      At least you can skip through a sponser

    • @generalcjg
      @generalcjg Рік тому +85

      I myself like the in video sponsors that are hilarious to watch, like Angry Joe's UA-cam Button approval video where Other Joe was naked inside the bathtub, only for AJ to tell him and Alex they got approved for the UA-cam Button, LOL!
      Plus you get the option to skip the in video sponsor by simply fast forwarding a bit the video, compared to the mid roll ads that sometimes you can't skip at all.

  • @JemmaHeigis
    @JemmaHeigis Рік тому +1506

    There’s nothing worse than getting one of those half hour ads while you’re listening to a video in the shower.

    • @thenightriterpartii7724
      @thenightriterpartii7724 Рік тому +130

      Or while you're trying to eat.I take my time to find the perfect video while eating but, dumb ads interrupt.

    • @GhostlyMoonWitch
      @GhostlyMoonWitch Рік тому +76

      @@thenightriterpartii7724 I recently sucked it up and got an adblocker, if I ever use the app I usually reload the video until I get lucky with a 5 second ad. The amount of ads nowadays are beyond ridiculous.

    • @thenightriterpartii7724
      @thenightriterpartii7724 Рік тому +21

      @@GhostlyMoonWitch I have an ad blocker on my computer but, I use my phone a lot more.

    • @GhostlyMoonWitch
      @GhostlyMoonWitch Рік тому +3

      @@thenightriterpartii7724 Same, but I use ios. I’m using 1blocker and I use youtube on safari and not the app.

    • @thenightriterpartii7724
      @thenightriterpartii7724 Рік тому +2

      @@GhostlyMoonWitch That's actually a good idea.

  • @Metaplayer
    @Metaplayer 6 місяців тому +25

    This video was such a bulls eye when it was made, and now when Google started a war against adblockers, I becomes almost prophetic.

  • @PedroBenolielBonito
    @PedroBenolielBonito 3 місяці тому +1

    Hello from a year in the future. I just dropped by to say that I have also noticed a pattern - whenever I am listening to multiple videos in a row (like, say, a full album) after a while, the ads start being unskippable. Like, say, if the first five songs on a ten-song album all have skippable pre-roll ads, the last five will all have unskippable ads. I have noticed this more than once, so it's probably not random.

  • @Kulgur
    @Kulgur Рік тому +2415

    I resisted getting an adblock for the longest time, because I wanted to support creators. The recent uptick in ads managed to convince me: I installed Ublock Origin a few weeks ago, and started to support more patreons. UA-cam is shooting itself in the foot.

    • @foolsenigma
      @foolsenigma Рік тому +219

      Oh absolutely. Right now i have ublock and youtube vanced, but if either of those go away and i have to deal with 5 ads at once, id literally just stop watching youtube videos. Thats literally the reason i stopped using crunchyroll. Theyd make more money off people if they just brought back those annoying little banners and limited video ads to the end of videos like they used to

    • @theminuskai7453
      @theminuskai7453 Рік тому +55

      All hail adblockers

    • @AzureTheAvian
      @AzureTheAvian Рік тому +27

      Sadly, I watch UA-cam on my iPhone so I can’t get Adblock and need to pay for UA-cam premium. Thankfully I set my location in a place that only costs like $5 a month.

    • @AdonanS
      @AdonanS Рік тому +25

      Same here, mate. A few years ago I heard creators don't get ad revenue if you have ad blocker, so I avoided using it too. These days, most people have sponsors, so I'm strongly considering using a blocker.

    • @alt1763
      @alt1763 Рік тому +25

      @@foolsenigma there is ReVanced, so you should be good on the mobile front

  • @FullMoonOctober
    @FullMoonOctober Рік тому +1574

    A while back I had my phone playing an hour long video of a legal expert going over a case, and it kept going to ads every 10ish minutes. My hands were messy so I couldn't hit the skip button, so I'd let them go. Until one ad just kept GOING and GOING for the longest time. I finally got fed up and washed my hands to go deal with it. The ad was 15 minutes into a 50-something minute ad. I was shocked. How are things like that even allowed?? You'd think there'd be a limit, but we know youtube will let anything happen in ads as long as they get their cut.

    • @MasterLPG
      @MasterLPG Рік тому +46

      *Unfortunately UA-cam is becoming more and more money-oriented these days, as many UA-camrs are going that way too so they don’t do anything since they're getting a cut of the action themselves.*

    • @Li8aGun92
      @Li8aGun92 Рік тому +31

      ​@@MasterLPG how thirsty are you?

    • @Li8aGun92
      @Li8aGun92 Рік тому +80

      ​@theviewbot google's ai is creepy. Wouldn't be surprised myself. I usually eat a yoghurt after my workout routine for protein. One time I didn't feel like it and as I was talking to myself I said I'm not eating it this time. Shortly after in the bathroom I got an ad that said "PROTEIN IN IMPORTANT FOR ATHLETES!".
      I might be paranoid af but damn. We know your phone listens to us, so... 💀

    • @SylvainJoseGautier-
      @SylvainJoseGautier- Рік тому +1

      @@Li8aGun92 I talked with my friends for like a few hours while scrolling on UA-cam about celebs such as Katy Perry and Ariana Grande and what popped-up in my YouTUbe recommendations? Every Katy Perry M/V in existence, I don't even watch M/Vs often, let alone KP.

    • @candycane1744
      @candycane1744 Рік тому +18

      Yeah I noticed Too when I'm at work and listen to music on UA-cam. Thought the day I get at most a 1 min ad but AS SOON as I get to work ALL the ads are 50min long and I can't keep pulling out my phone to skip it

  • @nofurry353
    @nofurry353 6 місяців тому +10

    There’s more! They don’t let you see a video unless you turn your adblocker off!

    • @MalucoLapin
      @MalucoLapin 5 місяців тому

      based on a cookie put in your computer : delete histo, remove all cookies and active connexions, reconnect on youtube, voilà ;)

  • @nartboglin9046
    @nartboglin9046 5 місяців тому +3

    This is how you start a UA-cam revolution, now just post this video everywhere and start a petition.

  • @hoenotjade
    @hoenotjade 9 місяців тому +423

    UA-cam has officially removed the “Stop seeing this ad” option and now all ads are unskipable. I swear UA-cam gets worse every year

    • @mctripleA
      @mctripleA 7 місяців тому +20

      It still exists on mobile (though I feel like the block ad function is completely broken for shorts ads as when I blocked an ad for stupid ai shit it nonstop shoved the ads in my face for like a week)

    • @pama1040
      @pama1040 6 місяців тому +1

      even the minute long ones

    • @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
      @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor 6 місяців тому +15

      uBlock Origin and UA-cam ReVanced are free. Don't let the time vampires anally penetrate you, join the epic system.

    • @monkegaming5091
      @monkegaming5091 6 місяців тому +3

      I remember getting a 1 hour long ad (no joke) imagine if i didnt have skip option back then

    • @gt8200-0
      @gt8200-0 6 місяців тому +8

      I hope one day a better alternative to UA-cam becomes mainstream. UA-cam was nice in its earlier years but it's time for a replacement.

  • @MrxD-cg5xs
    @MrxD-cg5xs Рік тому +685

    The thing that killed conventional TV for me was the amount of ads.
    So with YT doing everything in its power to force more and more ads on you, it’s setting itself up for that exact same fate.
    Only reason I’m still here is the fact that YT got a monopoly and there is nowhere else to go - for now at least.

    • @fatcat1250
      @fatcat1250 Рік тому +86

      The thing that killed conventional TV was youtube.
      With nothing in the horizon to replace youtube, even if it shoots itself on the foot enough to blast the whole planet it's standing on, it'll still be alive and kicking people with ads.

    • @TripleBarrel06
      @TripleBarrel06 Рік тому +19

      Poor DailyMotion, how could you do this to him?

    • @PetrSkalicky
      @PetrSkalicky Рік тому +2

      Jesus I don't have ads in any of my videos and cost me that only ~6$. Get over it

    • @talltroll7092
      @talltroll7092 Рік тому +18

      If YT sufficiently offends its' userbase, they will go elsewhere, and the place most of them go will become the "new YT"... until the sweet, sweet ad money becomes overwhelmingly important to them, too

    • @atlas_19
      @atlas_19 Рік тому +30

      @@PetrSkalicky Sorry that not everybody is in a place to pay for that. Not to mention most people watching UA-cam are probably teens and students who are financially dependant on their families and can't just go ahead and say "Can we get YT Premium, there are too many ads.".

  • @GBGuns
    @GBGuns 5 місяців тому +2

    Thank you for a concise and fair breakdown. I'll share this with my audience so they understand a little better.

  • @LeeRaldar
    @LeeRaldar 6 місяців тому +1

    As a guitarist I often check through various song tutorials, maybe 10 or 12 until I find the one best suited to my ear. The amount of ads involved is so absurd it is becoming easier to hop in my car and go down to the local library see if they have a paper copy of the song. But then there is the car radio pumping out back to back ad breaks on the way.

  • @valpix7007
    @valpix7007 Рік тому +1129

    It's funny bc whenever there's an in-video sponsorship (squarespace etc), when you pull up the waveform on the timeline, the "most replayed" section is almost ALWAYS the part after the ad

    • @electricpepperoni4789
      @electricpepperoni4789 Рік тому +191

      Its problably because we all already know about raid, audible,Nord, dragon city, raycon, and league of legends anyway.
      Edit: Cant forget ridge wallet.
      Edit 2: How did I not think of skillshare.
      Edit 3: I just remembered Honey, and squarespace.
      Edit 4: Opera GX of course.
      Edit 5: Did I mention Displate?
      Edit 6: I was reminded of Keeps.
      Edit 7: Genshin Impact right how did I not think of that?
      Edit 8: I just fixed Edit 7 to say edit 7 instead of just edit. I also added edit 9
      Edit 9: We can't have Nord without Express to complete the VPN pair, also for this edit I added edit 10.
      Edit 10: Not even about the sponsorships but dont you hate it when ads are promoting adblockers. Counter Intuitive.

    • @randomsnapperson8008
      @randomsnapperson8008 Рік тому +24

      @@electricpepperoni4789 Surfshark

    • @dinoblacklane1640
      @dinoblacklane1640 Рік тому +65

      The only ones I dont skip are the creators that actually do interesting things with the sponsorships
      If they just read off the script then sure skip
      But take internet historian, turns his ad sections into wierd adventures

    • @gazza8524
      @gazza8524 Рік тому +16

      @@dinoblacklane1640 While its probably not a good look, TomSka did a very good video called SurfShark Please Fire me, where he does go into a little depth about what most sponsors want, a bland ad-read with 1 or 2 points and a (in the case of a VPN company) just showing you changing your location on Netflix. Guess it brings the price down too, what's cheaper? Getting this person to blankly talk into the camera with fake enthusiasm for a shoddy product / service or for them to put time, effort and maybe money in for what is essentially an overglorified person blankly talking into the camera with fake enthusiasm but in a costume?

    • @mattd6085
      @mattd6085 Рік тому +4

      @@dinoblacklane1640 Nord VPN Man is the hero we never deserved and don't need, Ganesh bless him

  • @CorldorlsGaming
    @CorldorlsGaming Рік тому +340

    It feels like UA-cam is hurting itself for money, removing dislike and adding many unskippable ads

    • @ashtar3876
      @ashtar3876 Рік тому +40

      There's no alternative so they don't risk anything.

    • @3st3st77
      @3st3st77 Рік тому +18

      Don't worry, they are fully aware that they are killing UA-cam off. If the service you are offering has many consumers but few growth opportunities, it is best to just get as much money out of it as possible and invest it somewhere else.

    • @hgyuuuuhj098
      @hgyuuuuhj098 Рік тому +10

      Hurting how? U have nowhere to go. This is why monopolies suck

    • @wtnv
      @wtnv Рік тому +25

      @Sonic Mobian the removal of the dislike button means that scams / terrible how-to's / etc can no longer be quickly avoided and the user's time gets wasted. the only reason they took it away is because it prevents the big companies supporting them from getting negative responses on their videos. you might not have been affected by it but it was definitely a bad change

  • @I_hunt_lolis
    @I_hunt_lolis 5 місяців тому +13

    I remember I stopped watching a couple of channels as I would get ads every few minutes. Had no idea it could be youtube's and not the content creator's fault... Thanks for the informative video!

  • @marioncoco
    @marioncoco 6 місяців тому +2

    This vid is genuinely one of the best ive seen in a while. Subscribed ✨

  • @interesting2491
    @interesting2491 Рік тому +1858

    The amount of commercial advertising we consume nowadays is INSANE

    • @piccolo917
      @piccolo917 Рік тому +235

      Jup, and it feels like such a waste of everyone’s time.I know cars exist. I know sodas exist. I know website making tools exist. Etc. Etc. Etc. If I’m interested in one of those, I’ll look it up go to the store. I have never watched an ad and immediately went out to buy it or something. You don’t have to pester me with the same ads over and over and over and over again.

    • @nevercommitsuicide
      @nevercommitsuicide Рік тому +110

      yep, worst thing is that it fucks up our mental health

    • @DoppelgangerTH
      @DoppelgangerTH Рік тому +3

      @@piccolo917 I believe they are subconsciously injecting you their brand,so if you decide to buy an item the first brand you'll likely to remember is theirs.

    • @juneyellowsnek
      @juneyellowsnek Рік тому

      @@nevercommitsuicide absolutely incorrect, even if you're a pussy I still don't see how it would affect you at all

    • @ericredbear425
      @ericredbear425 Рік тому +40

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  • @bugsmith9751
    @bugsmith9751 9 місяців тому +457

    the single dumbest thing is that youtube heavily restricts what kind of content creators can make before they get demonetized, but dont hold ads to the same standards... youtubers cant show something mildly spicy, meanwhile in a video where the person is trying to be wholesome, you get an ad for hentai... or worse

    • @theuncalledfor
      @theuncalledfor 7 місяців тому

      "You are demonetized because our advertisers don't want their violent addictive poisonous swear-word-laden medical-pseudoscience porn to be associated with your far-right political ideology of being historically accurate in historical documentaries. What do you mean that's not even far-right? Shut up or your entire channel will be demonetized forever."

    • @joshuabacker2363
      @joshuabacker2363 6 місяців тому +24

      That's just power dynamics. Content creators depend on youtube. UA-cam needs content creators, yes, but youtube is a singularly organized entity, while content creators are basically a vast mob of individuals. Even if some of the content creators won't abide by UA-cam's monolithic standards, they ultimately can't effect any serious change, especially since they are individually weak.
      The top 10 most-viewed UA-cam channels have a combined view count of just over 1.1 Trillion views. UA-cam gets that many views in total every year, nearly. All of those channels could vanish with their viewers never deciding to replace them, and UA-cam probably wouldn't even notice the metric difference for years.
      Furthermore, only the top 9 channels actually have more TOTAL VIEWS than UA-cam's MONTHLY view count. There's literally nine channels out of tens of thousands of active, partnered, actually-relevant channels that could even put a visible dent in UA-cams metrics on their own. And of course, none of these channels ever would get involved in stuff like this.
      To even further elaborate the difference, Pewdiepie only has a total view count of 28 billion. UA-cam gets nearly 3x his total views per *month*. Three separate pewdiepies would have to leave youtube entirely to set them back just a month in views.
      For the vast majority of channels, it's even worse. Grant's channel only has a total of 33 Million views. He would need to find over 200 youtubers of a similar size to get a total view count equivalent to a month of youtube's views. And if he wanted to actually leave the platform and lower youtube's monthly views, he would need to find nearly 1000 other channels of a similar size to cause any measurable impact on UA-cam's metrics.
      And this is all heavily skewed information, because in reality, if Grant's channel disappeared tomorrow, most of his viewers wouldn't stop viewing videos, they'd just turn their attention to other videos or channels. UA-cam has *all* the power in this relationship, and the only ones they really need to appease are advertisers and sponsors. Content creators and even viewers are just too small and too divisive to be a threat to them.

    • @bugsmith9751
      @bugsmith9751 6 місяців тому +8

      @@joshuabacker2363 im sorry, im here for comments, not to buy a book, thanks

    • @GoogleMapsTablet
      @GoogleMapsTablet 6 місяців тому +15

      ​@@bugsmith9751Chill he's just making a essay to tell you

    • @GoogleMapsTablet
      @GoogleMapsTablet 6 місяців тому +8

      ​@@joshuabacker2363Nice Book I'll buy it

  • @0sujin
    @0sujin 5 місяців тому

    I've not seen your channel before, but you were suddenly featured in my homepage recommended, so here I am. Thanks for this kind of content. I liked and subscribed!

  • @EunoiaAnrkyuk
    @EunoiaAnrkyuk 5 місяців тому

    The other day I did a factory reset on my Surface to resell it and I recalled a video on YT that showed how to find out the battery condition on a Surface. I found the video and skipping through the video to find the specific information, every time I skipped through the timeline on the video I was forced to watch an advert. I ended up having to watch 5 sets of adverts, with each having an un unskipable ad followed by one I had to watch for 15 seconds before I could skip. I ended up having to watch 4 mins of ads to watch 30 seconds of content.

  • @j4l
    @j4l Рік тому +988

    The modern web without an ad blocker is unbearable

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 Рік тому

      It's shameful how this beautiful creation has been ruined by government, the media, scammers, and corporations.

    • @harrisongrant8558
      @harrisongrant8558 Рік тому +109

      It's literally almost impossible to use it without an ad blocker. Not only does it make everything ungodly slow and use a ton of bandwidth for no good reason, making reading anything hell, It's also a legitimate security concern. I don't use uBlock to screw over creators, and UA-cam ads are generally not dangerous so much as they are intrusive and annoying, but when it comes to reading the news online or doing literally anything else, I'm not about to risk drive-by malware and other crap from ads that these multi-billion dollar corporations can't be bothered to police.

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 Рік тому +40

      @@harrisongrant8558 Absolutely. Adblock should be mandatory.

    • @NotRealAkira
      @NotRealAkira Рік тому +35

      @@harrisongrant8558 Some ads on UA-cam have actually been sctraight up malicious though.

    • @ShadowMajestic
      @ShadowMajestic Рік тому +15

      It's not like the 2000's were all that fantastic without an ad-blocker. Remember those loud smiley ads?
      Those community adblock lists uBlock etc. uses, started as people's hosts files.

  • @TheDweeb002
    @TheDweeb002 Рік тому +1868

    Ironically being greeted with 2 un-skippable ads upon tapping this video had my rage meter through the roof

    • @unknownname1941
      @unknownname1941 Рік тому +6

      :D

    • @nickutzig1157
      @nickutzig1157 Рік тому +3

      @@NANAnaNavilleradoes that work for ios

    • @ITedBundy
      @ITedBundy Рік тому +45

      @@nickutzig1157 tip for phones, report the ad and it straight up skips both, doing that always 😂 don't have to give a reason aswell you can x out at that screen

    • @rat_dragon
      @rat_dragon Рік тому +25

      @@ITedBundy that's what I do too, but they won't always let you report every ad

    • @_Chessa_
      @_Chessa_ Рік тому +9

      @@ITedBundy don’t teach them this. Let them be in the dark. XD F iOS

  • @galaxytripod8055
    @galaxytripod8055 5 місяців тому +1

    Seeing this vid in my recommended casually reminded me when I got the lego movie as an ad. Yes. The entire lego movie. As an ad. The lego movie 2 was on its way and they were desperate to make some money, some white dude came on my screen and was like, "hey, I know your about to watch a video but let me tell you about something something bleh bleh, and now let me show you something very special" and it just, started playing the lego movie. You could skip it. But like, I was very curious, so I sat there and watched it for a few minutes before eventually skipping. But, that was very weird.

  • @HowieRaps
    @HowieRaps 6 місяців тому +3

    One time I fell asleep to UA-cam and when I woke up, I kid you not it said there was still like 4 hours left on a 14 hour ad. I took a video of it because i couldnt believe it 😂

    • @rylthd8559
      @rylthd8559 6 місяців тому

      bruh, why you sleeping for more than ten hours.

    • @HowieRaps
      @HowieRaps 6 місяців тому

      @@rylthd8559 what's there to be awake for

  • @stephendavis5530
    @stephendavis5530 6 місяців тому +359

    One thing that REALLY pisses me off is that I am a pretty small creator at the moment and, even though I do not qualify for AdSense, UA-cam puts ads on my most popular videos and I DON'T SEE A SINGLE PENNY OF THAT MONEY! I don't see how they can get away with this!

    • @LMDProductionsOfficial
      @LMDProductionsOfficial 6 місяців тому +33

      Thank you!! Me too. It's our work ffs piss off ads.

    • @krys_chan
      @krys_chan 5 місяців тому +36

      i use to purposely find small creators to watch because i hated ads and wanted to support smaller channels, now i’ll get an ad on a video with less than 5k views on a channel with only a couple hundred subs. it’s terrible.

    • @ugleebuggs7597
      @ugleebuggs7597 5 місяців тому +19

      Same. I’ve actually set my vids to demonetise, thinking it would stop ads on my vids. My vids still have ads.

    • @Pat12379
      @Pat12379 5 місяців тому

      You don't have enough subscribers

    • @stephendavis5530
      @stephendavis5530 5 місяців тому

      @@Pat12379 No, you're quite right my friend....I DON'T have enough subscribers to qualify for AdSense as I already stated, but they are still putting ads on my videos even though I don't qualify, therefore - THEY SHOULD NOT BE PUTTING ADVERTS ON MY VIDEOS, SHOULD THEY? UA-cam are making money from my videos and I don't see a penny of it! How ice of them!

  • @grumpo89
    @grumpo89 Рік тому +520

    We took those skippable ads from the good ol' days for granted. I remember when having to wait five seconds to skip one ad was unbearable.

    • @TheItalianoAssassino
      @TheItalianoAssassino Рік тому +30

      I remember ads on mobile not being a thing period around 2013.

    • @sabersz
      @sabersz Рік тому +24

      It still is unbearable, being someone who's used UA-cam Vanced for years now.

    • @idogaming3532
      @idogaming3532 Рік тому +9

      I remember when only beginning ads existed.

    • @onyxia8786
      @onyxia8786 Рік тому +5

      It's still unbearable, it's just WAY FKn WORSE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Kris-od3sj
      @Kris-od3sj Рік тому +3

      @@sabersz To anyone reading that: Vanced is dead, Google killed it, it's been revived as ReVanced.

  • @PedroBenolielBonito
    @PedroBenolielBonito 3 місяці тому

    I also love when the ad cuts in on the last five seconds of a song. Like, dude, let that last riff ring out. THEN you can show me an ad.

  • @twizzlers7274
    @twizzlers7274 5 місяців тому

    Great video, I'm going to need to check out more of them now :D

  • @lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598
    @lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598 Рік тому +2785

    That's an honestly admirable stance coming from a UA-camr. Glad you're willing to respect our time and happy to support you on patreon because of that.

    • @mmazvis
      @mmazvis Рік тому +97

      I can't remember who said it, but few months back I was watching a video where a guy was talking about how much ad revenue is generated by a single viewer. His conclusion was, if you donate $1 over the period of 5 years or so, you have already given the creator much more money, than what the creator would have earned by you watching and interacting with every single ad, on every single video over those 5 years.
      So if you feel guilty of using ad blocker, as you are taking away money from your favorite youtubers, just give a $1 donation every year or so, and that would be much much more beneficial to that creator than watching ads to support him. And if you think that their content is not worth the $1 donation per 5 years, then why are you watching it in the first place?

    • @whohan779
      @whohan779 Рік тому +3

      @@mmazvis Louis Rossmann probably

    • @mirandahw
      @mirandahw Рік тому +9

      @@whohan779 Correct, here's the video in question:
      ua-cam.com/video/oV3s_sESnmE/v-deo.html
      Louis is pretty awesome most of the time.

    • @RipRoaringGarage
      @RipRoaringGarage Рік тому +11

      I told my viewers the same thing. Im not even monetized and YT puts ads everywhere. I dont even have the option of picking where an add pops in. But Patreon sucks. Subscribestar is much cheaper and better overall.

    • @SpunkMayo
      @SpunkMayo Рік тому +3

      @@mmazvis or I can enjoy for free, and think it's worth whatever I like.

  • @goergebobicles1351
    @goergebobicles1351 Рік тому +707

    I remember I saw my best friend's grandmother trying to watch Vietnamese cooking/tourism videos through the UA-cam app through a Roku TV. Even though it was technically through my best friends account, the algorithm was able to figure out that it was a different person watching because her grandmother didn't fully understand the UI and remote and wouldn't skip ads. The end result was UA-cam pumping multiple actual 50 minute ads at her for shady medicine.

    • @bazookaman1353
      @bazookaman1353 Рік тому +66

      Wth

    • @dimanyak373
      @dimanyak373 Рік тому +14

      @LOAN NGUYEN They're everywhere except of Canada, as far as I know.

    • @TheAbsol7448
      @TheAbsol7448 Рік тому +41

      They can figure that out but they can't moderate comment sections or look at appeals properly.

    • @kallmannkallmann
      @kallmannkallmann Рік тому +37

      honesty should be a cap on 1min. noone is willingly watching super long adds. once I got a 3h add xD

    • @doimoi958
      @doimoi958 Рік тому +19

      The fake medical ads are so common and hated that they became a meme in Vietnam a year ago.

  • @basspig
    @basspig 5 місяців тому +1

    I haven't seen a single ad on UA-cam since I stopped using the UA-cam app.

  • @GregTheReaper
    @GregTheReaper 5 місяців тому +7

    I feel like you need to revisit this topic after a year considering how much worse things have got and how brainwashed some creators are. I've literally been kicked off creators discord servers for calling out the stupidity of comparing adblocking to piracy, it's absolutely insane. Plus removing adblock support from Chrome based browsers, sounds straight up illegal and irresponsible to consumer privacy & safety.

  • @dh1380
    @dh1380 Рік тому +1181

    I'm actually surprised more youtubers aren't talking about this. It is absolutely ridiculous. UA-cam trying to blackmail viewers in to subscribing.

    • @BunE22
      @BunE22 Рік тому +36

      Yes. I un-subscribed to a doctor's channel because YT made the ads too frequent. I told him so in comments.

    • @MikiMannikin
      @MikiMannikin Рік тому +43

      At this point we can call it bullying from youtubes side. Because there seems to be no working add blocking app on phones and tvs.

    • @zoiuduu
      @zoiuduu Рік тому +16

      if youtube were good and stop recomending me shitty videos like in foreign languages , kids stuff, etc i would pay

    • @softcake9548
      @softcake9548 Рік тому +9

      @@MikiMannikin adblock browser for android, no idea about ios...

    • @AlastorBG3
      @AlastorBG3 Рік тому +10

      @@BunE22 Another way to support creators is via merch. It's my preferred way of doing it instead of patreon.
      Unfortunately they never mentioned it, but merch is expensive, the good thing is not all merch is bad, the ones I bought was worth it.
      I also use firefox on my PC, I always have and I never wanted to change browsers.

  • @MillywiggZ
    @MillywiggZ Рік тому +1971

    The worst example of UA-cam ads was a video uploaded today by ‘Kazoneart’.
    It was a video of a manager mourning the loss of his friend and colleague. The video was roughly 14min long and it was just a man, with a camera talking about how the death of Kim Jung Gi; How it happened, the funeral arrangements because Gi died abroad, how the company will commemorate Gi.
    During the video, Hyun Jin Kim the manager of ‘Kazone’ breaks down while talking about Gi. UA-cam thought the best thing to do was to put an ad break of unskippable ads after Kim breaks down crying and turns the camera off before he resumes. When I shut the video down to watch it again there were THREE UNSKIPPABLE AD BREAKS in the video.
    So, here’s my non-ad blocker way of getting rid of the ads when they show up but it works 95% of the time. When an ad plays there’s a small ‘i’ in the bottom left corner of the video, click that then ‘Stop seeing this ad’. It’ll cancel the ad block even if you don’t give a reason.
    This is me giving you the finger UA-cam. Putting ads on a broken man grieving for his friend.

    • @mossnodachi350
      @mossnodachi350 Рік тому +209

      I was genuinely just thinking of this when I clicked the video. The fact that youtube has an entire algorithm for divvying up ads and their content and somehow slapping it onto someone being honest and open about a really tragic (and lets be honest, traumatic in regards to how Kim jung gi passed suddenly abroad) event. There is NO Reason there should be ads on that at all, let alone unskippable. Not only is it a pain in the ass to viewers, but it makes it impossible to talk about anything of value without (in this case) a grieving man being interrupted by idk, a cheery youtube shorts or hobby lobby christmas ad

    • @cbsGD
      @cbsGD Рік тому +193

      I actually did that trick of pressing the i button and after about 6 months they literally took away the ability to stop seeing ads from me, which is why I now use an ad blocker.

    • @xian654
      @xian654 Рік тому +18

      So sorry, was looking through comments and accidentally pressed dislike on your comment.

    • @officialSgtPepperArc360
      @officialSgtPepperArc360 Рік тому +11

      Obviously UA-cam doesn't care for that man.

    • @MillywiggZ
      @MillywiggZ Рік тому +20

      @@xian654
      Pffff. Don’t worry about it. Despite what YT says I didn’t receive that “feedback”. Hahaa!

  • @6ucket
    @6ucket 4 місяці тому +2

    The worst thing that ever happened as a youtube premium user was one day when i forgot to sleep my PC, my UA-cam feed autoplayed into an actual neon*zi account who was counting the amount of jewish guests on joe rogan. Very uncomfortable at the idea that even a penny of what i spend on YTP could potentially go to a person like that.

  • @belle8i
    @belle8i 6 місяців тому

    Your thumbnail caught my eye. I visited the Postojna cave this past October. Cute dragon!

  • @JA-tp1uw
    @JA-tp1uw Рік тому +1147

    Remember when people freaked out at the first tiny add boxes came around? Who would've thought it would go this far

    • @connivingkhajiit
      @connivingkhajiit Рік тому +90

      Slippery slope baby

    • @cefirodewinter9086
      @cefirodewinter9086 Рік тому +44

      I remember when UA-cam had no adds, though I was a Kid

    • @TheSamuraiGoomba
      @TheSamuraiGoomba Рік тому +74

      Those people who freaked out initially were the canaries in the coal mine. They were reacting not just to the first small ads themselves, but to the direction it would inevitably lead.

    • @wewoweewoo
      @wewoweewoo Рік тому +7

      that was the only time I ran without add block

    • @freedustin
      @freedustin Рік тому +34

      @@TheSamuraiGoomba People online tend to forget that many of us were alive before 1990...we remember when cable companies sold us ad-free for a premium price then added in ads anyways.

  • @koolkayn
    @koolkayn Рік тому +375

    UA-cam is starting to feel like US TV with how abundant these ads are

    • @cainster
      @cainster Рік тому +36

      I think US TV literally gives less ads.

    • @jaketaf98
      @jaketaf98 Рік тому +2

      Profittttssssssss babbyyyyyy

    • @onilamb845
      @onilamb845 Рік тому +12

      Ironically enough that was my major reason for quitting TV decades ago, now there's nowhere to run lol...

    • @danielserrano929
      @danielserrano929 Рік тому +3

      Time to quit UA-cam 😢

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire Рік тому +1

      It's worse, muc h worse

  • @exxpo7870
    @exxpo7870 5 місяців тому

    I literally had an unskippable 15 second ad, which then had a 2nd one that was also 15 seconds but skippable. Skipped it, watched 2 more seconds of the video before hitting a midroll 7 second unskippable ad. It's nuts

  • @Borigin
    @Borigin 6 місяців тому +1

    The new Mitchell ads really says something more like "you want, no, I will give you some content with your ads" instead of some ads with your content

  • @Jabrilgalien
    @Jabrilgalien Рік тому +1054

    2:52 that's exactly what happened to me: I used to always keep adblock disabled on youtube because I wanted to support the channels I watch, but some months ago when I started getting 3 to 4 unskippable ads in a row or a 30 sec unskippable ad on a 1 min video, I just had to enable it again. In addition to that I also got some ads for literal camgirl websites or for scams...
    UA-cam has just become unwatchable without adblock.

    • @johanneswerner1140
      @johanneswerner1140 Рік тому +77

      Yes. And that's the same with all Internet ads. They started out as just pictures. OK. Then with sound, videos, humongous ressource use. Trackers. Miners hidden in ads.
      Sorry. No. I'm OK with a well placed relevant ad or three. A still picture on a website. I'm OK if you have a non crappy sponsor that is not a scam. I'm OK with you advertising that.

    • @SCIFIguy64
      @SCIFIguy64 Рік тому +38

      Those creators aren’t making bank from you watching their ads, if you want to support them, actually support them on Patreon or wherever.

    • @Misterjtbgaming
      @Misterjtbgaming Рік тому +8

      brave browser is where it's at man.

    • @dimesonhiseyes9134
      @dimesonhiseyes9134 Рік тому

      Nearly all UA-cam ads are scams. They know about it and do nothing about it because they don't care and view you as a $ sign and nothing else.

    • @AIXMK1
      @AIXMK1 Рік тому +6

      My Bother In Christ, just set your VPN on Russia.
      I am a proud native citizen and enjoy
      supreme no-ad experience)
      I actually used premium before sanctions and did not notice the change 😅

  • @spyeikzjesus
    @spyeikzjesus Рік тому +1948

    Thank you for being the first creator i know who actually speaks out against the insanity that youtube is aiming for!

    • @bobuccman1424
      @bobuccman1424 Рік тому +5

      @@SpectrumAssociates whatever second amendment is

    • @Omnihilo
      @Omnihilo Рік тому +8

      Check out Louis Rossman. He’s made a couple of videos on it, and goes into detail about why using Adblock isn’t a bad thing. They’re pretty good.

    • @drantigon
      @drantigon Рік тому +2

      Seems like you didn't watch many youtube videos

    • @drantigon
      @drantigon Рік тому +8

      Some things are borderline criminal in the EU

    • @justsomeeggsinapot1784
      @justsomeeggsinapot1784 Рік тому +13

      @@SpectrumAssociates bud not everyones American

  • @justsomebody2013
    @justsomebody2013 29 днів тому +2

    Wow, UA-cam try to hide this video hard. It impossible to find this video unless people subscribe to you or search with all the words in the title

  • @silent_soul7597
    @silent_soul7597 5 місяців тому +1

    I am literally losing my mind with these genshin ads. They always have their 3 minute long ads pop up when I’m cleaning dishes or I am somewhere else in the house and they always show the same repetitive ones

  • @TheTrueGlaukos
    @TheTrueGlaukos Рік тому +672

    I stopped turning my adblock off back when I found out youtube was still running ads on channels they'd entirely demonetized. Since youtube hasn't done anything at all to be a better platform since then, I haven't seen a single ad in years

    • @elgatochurro
      @elgatochurro Рік тому +53

      thats also why i refuse to pay them

    • @Sin_Purple
      @Sin_Purple Рік тому +3

      @@elgatochurro Amen, brother

    • @meatbleed
      @meatbleed Рік тому

      this website is an anomaly. no other company can afford to do anything like it. if you like it, support it, since it's built to fail. so weird how billions of people use something but nobody seems to want to support it.

    • @thenickbolt
      @thenickbolt Рік тому +28

      @@meatbleed It's because Google has bought out or strangled every possible competitor.

    • @cacomelon4768
      @cacomelon4768 Рік тому +15

      Back when I did youtube I was watching some of my videos on a computer without adblock and was surprised to see so many ads. I have 86 subs. Most of these videos had 40-200 views and I was not even close to being monetized. UA-cam was ruining the experience for what few viewers I had without my consent and not even paying me for it. Thanks youtube.

  • @SRO78
    @SRO78 Рік тому +386

    The fact that 2/3 people are using adblockers says more about ads themselves than it does about us tbh, the fact that they are this much of a neccesity is a bad thing

    • @blackout4328
      @blackout4328 Рік тому

      Cry harder

    • @TheGravityShifter
      @TheGravityShifter Рік тому +33

      The aggression is why I use adblock, also some of these ads are more unchecked than you may think which can lead to shady things. My way to combat it when I can't be on the PC, say I'm on my PlayStation, I'll just mute the TV. When part 2/2 pops up, I immediately back out and go back into the video. Most of the time this allows you to skip Part 2 of the Ads completely because the App/Site basically wants to make sure you've seen at least Part 1 of the 2.

    • @samu-chan
      @samu-chan Рік тому +2

      where’d you get 2/3 from😭

    • @TheGravityShifter
      @TheGravityShifter Рік тому +24

      @@samu-chan If you watched the video long enough, you wouldn't be asking.

    • @samu-chan
      @samu-chan Рік тому +6

      @@TheGravityShifter this is true

  • @caffiend81
    @caffiend81 6 місяців тому

    Your segment about Chrome is exactly why I switched back to Firefox a while back. I heard the announcement about Chrome disabling ad-block capability and switched the same day.

  • @nacho6322
    @nacho6322 5 місяців тому +1

    I've realized that at least on a tv, if you close a video and open it again to skip an ad, you get an even longer ad every, single, time.

  • @BananaTheNinja
    @BananaTheNinja Рік тому +754

    What I hate about ads is if you find a youtuber that lulls you to sleep, you'll put on a video, start slowly drifting off, be 90% to dream land and some FREAKING AD WILL PLAY and it completely shatters any sense of calm.

    • @norrecvizharan1177
      @norrecvizharan1177 Рік тому +74

      I know right. Even tried to just put on a 30 minute OST (it was the Frigate Orpheon theme from Metroid Prime, super chill to listen to) to sort of meditate and nod off to, but then hardly 7 minutes into it I'm gettin hit with that shit, and not even playing the vid through to the end and restarting gets rid of them for some reason.
      Just like, damn, I simply want to listen to good music for extended periods of time without interruptions.

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 Рік тому +7

      Then buy premium

    • @grandstarstudiosYT
      @grandstarstudiosYT Рік тому +73

      Or use adblock

    • @Thinginator
      @Thinginator Рік тому +43

      I used to listen to classical music on UA-cam for that reason and for studying, but UA-cam kept putting ads in the middle of the songs and it was maddeningly jarring. It’s a SONG, it’s supposed to be enjoyed without breaks!

    • @ctrlaltdebug
      @ctrlaltdebug Рік тому

      If you don't have AdBlock by now, you're really really stupid.

  • @alicetakanawa7288
    @alicetakanawa7288 9 місяців тому +244

    A lot of people don't realize that just about if not every feature on premium is just what regular UA-cam used to have. You used to be able to watch videos with the app minimized, too, but now you can't because it's a "premium" feature. Actually heinous

    • @hotkfclover6169
      @hotkfclover6169 6 місяців тому +9

      ...everyone realize that

    • @jooger69
      @jooger69 6 місяців тому

      So what.

    • @denmarkball7728
      @denmarkball7728 6 місяців тому +2

      Name one person between the ages 12-60 who doesnt realise that

    • @DreadMew
      @DreadMew 5 місяців тому +2

      yeah i used to listen to scary stories with my screen off but now i have to keep the screen on using more battery smh

    • @marzipan24
      @marzipan24 5 місяців тому +1

      But you get UA-cam Music. Which is the reason I don't have to pay Spotify or any other music streaming service. Of course it's ridiculous that they removed these features and put them behind a pay wall. But I think Premium is still kinda fair because of YT Music.

  • @brandongordon4019
    @brandongordon4019 6 місяців тому +1

    Really great vid. I think it's so dumb that youtube will just play ads over everything. Like a 20 second unskippable ad on a 4 second clip with 128 views.

  • @bunsenn5064
    @bunsenn5064 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for not putting an ad in this video.

  • @TheCactusMage
    @TheCactusMage Рік тому +685

    What's even more frustrating is that there's a glitch that occurs on mobile sometimes (at least for me, I don't know if others experience this issue) that causes unskippable mid roll ads to play again immediately after they're done, leaving you watching the exact same unskippable ads again instead of going back to your video.

    • @cloudbrooks
      @cloudbrooks Рік тому +45

      oh good i thought i was the only one! or i guess... thats not good...

    • @undozan4180
      @undozan4180 Рік тому +39

      for me, sometimes after the ad is over, it just stays white or black, i have to close and open the video again

    • @leinad3955
      @leinad3955 Рік тому +4

      Get UA-cam Vanced bro

    • @darthsidius9631
      @darthsidius9631 Рік тому +12

      I use mobile only and it's ad hell using youtube!

    • @leinad3955
      @leinad3955 Рік тому +3

      @@darthsidius9631 GET UA-cam VANCED BRO

  • @TheSamuraiGoomba
    @TheSamuraiGoomba Рік тому +601

    It started during the pandemic. There are a lot of channels I can't watch on devices anymore because I'll get a double stack of ads every 1 or 2 actual minutes. Like, 1 minutes of watching a video and then I'll get a double stack, 30 seconds of unskippable ads. Who the hell can even remember what show they're watching with ad breaks every one or two minutes??? It's totally insane.

    • @neonoir__
      @neonoir__ Рік тому +75

      It's insane how porn sites have less viewer experience intrusive ads

    • @WohaoG
      @WohaoG Рік тому +6

      @@neonoir__ how do you know?🤨[insert my pfp here]

    • @noahyoung6524
      @noahyoung6524 Рік тому +21

      @@WohaoG littleR ain’t lying though they only do it at the beginning of the video and you won’t see them again

    • @WohaoG
      @WohaoG Рік тому +1

      ​@@noahyoung6524 ok both of you to jail

    • @eliescobis9922
      @eliescobis9922 Рік тому +2

      @@WohaoG no

  • @kodyconvis6342
    @kodyconvis6342 5 місяців тому +1

    I just use an ad blocker i haven't watched an ad in 3 years.

  • @MrJemoederopeenstokj
    @MrJemoederopeenstokj 6 місяців тому

    Bro just saved me ad watching time so i can spend more of it watching 10 hour vids of nyan cat variations. Defo earned that sub

  • @vukkicos5688
    @vukkicos5688 Рік тому +629

    And then they occasionally hit you with that one-question-survey to rate your recent advertisement experience on UA-cam, where you cannot even elaborate the problem, while each answer could easily be interpreted as a reason to add more ads without further explanation

    • @kirakaffee9976
      @kirakaffee9976 Рік тому +47

      the most annoying thing about the surveys is the "music" they added some time ago 😖

    • @galaxyendergirl
      @galaxyendergirl Рік тому +35

      i never choose any option for the surveys.

    • @grkb
      @grkb Рік тому +17

      @@kirakaffee9976 kevin macleod music moment

    • @TheLithp
      @TheLithp Рік тому

      @@galaxyendergirl Same.

    • @user-pv7vc9kp9k
      @user-pv7vc9kp9k Рік тому +1

      @@galaxyendergirl i choose the wrong option

  • @chrisxd146
    @chrisxd146 Рік тому +945

    It's not just UA-cam ramping up aggressive advertising, but rather most of the internet as a whole. Fan wikis, news articles, forums, tutorials, and many more are inundated with ads that fill 75% of the screen with some blasting audio at max volume. It's a hellscape trying to accomplish anything without some form of adblocking and privacy protection.
    On a brighter note, I'm happy to see the resurgence of Firefox in terms of popularity. I used it back in 2011 for a bit before Chrome became popular, and I'm glad to see Mozilla has made several improvements to their browser as a whole.

    • @saniainez
      @saniainez Рік тому +26

      I'm pretty proud to say I've never actually used Chrome. Firefox for 6 years, Edge for 1 year. Will return to Firefox when the ad block ban happens.
      What about phone? Nope, just factory-installed browsers. Never a Chrome.

    • @elipticalecliptic481
      @elipticalecliptic481 Рік тому +31

      for many wikis, there is more ad (and autoplay videos) than wiki

    • @xraceboyex
      @xraceboyex Рік тому

      Imagine if there was a way to pay something like.. let's say.. $12 a month, and it would somehow magically remove the incentive for a company.. like.. let's say.. UA-cam, to monetize your attention with advertisements so they can keep their warehouses full of servers that burn terrawatts of energy - all to bring an unfathomably diverse, largest collection of audio/video data in human history to your fingertips - for your often frivilous entertainment... It's a darn shame that's an insane idea and could never work

    • @xraceboyex
      @xraceboyex Рік тому

      @@elipticalecliptic481 If you're complaining about wiki, you probably use it a lot. Do you donate?

    • @elipticalecliptic481
      @elipticalecliptic481 Рік тому +26

      @@xraceboyex also I don't want to have to choose between horribly intrusive ads or having to pay just to use the internet; that is my issue primarily
      like there are so many independent fan wikis that are *better* and don't have intrusive ads like those; like ads are fine but you don't need to add so many that the page is more ad than information

  • @Af-mp3jm
    @Af-mp3jm 6 місяців тому

    This makes me feel lucky that I don’t remember getting a single ad in this video.

  • @LegacyIvyTerascale
    @LegacyIvyTerascale 4 місяці тому +1

    any time i saw an intrusive ad on youtube it had NOTHING to do with my history interests or related to the video i clicked on