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Key Takeaways

  • YouTube ad segments can be annoying but have a Skip option available after a few seconds.

  • Users have noticed a change in the Skip button's display, potentially leading to confusion.

  • The absence of a countdown timer in the Skip button's usual spot seems to be intentional.

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's funny how I've learned I hate ads more than I want to watch the content I'm sometimes and I end up just instantly closing the video if an ad starts.

But that of course is only if I screw up and I'm not using ad blockers.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have witnessed this behaviour. A person opened a video in the Android YouTube app and immediately closed it when an ad started playing. Then opened the same video again, closed it, because ads. Opened it a third time and then let it play without ads.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Most people don’t care or they care but not enough to do anything.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

I'll do this if a website has an inconvenient pop up asking for email, or the cookie consent popup is too big to ignore. I just don't bother going back. I'm not sicking around to navigate around dark pattern bullshit like that.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Auster@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Also great for finding channels in alternative services, and even more so since Google breaks Youtube's compatibility to 3rd party tools every once in a while.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Also revanced!

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] red@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

no age restricted video is huge no, so I'll still stick to revanced

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

literally have not had to skip a youtube ad in years, because I use ReVanced and AdNauseam like a sane person.

I'm going to be sad when YouTube dies, and all that collective knowledge and content either goes poof or is haphazardly, incompletely transferred to some "new thing", whenever that is -- but I won't be that sad.

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I started using YTDLP to download the shows I care about and have them saved offline.

I used to watch a show that got taken down. The show came back online few months later with heavy modifications to remove any potential DMCA footage from it.

[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I'll definitely be sad, it's a website I've truly grown up alongside

[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

YouTube doesn't show ads in my country but I still prefer not to use the official app because it sounds "heavy" to me

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, how does YouTube make money? What country are you in?

[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They probably make money from sharing my data with 3rd parties , though it's not as benefitical as the data of someone in other countries I live in Syria

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

That makes sense as I'm sure no company wants the drama in Syria

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aww. I don't think I wanna use a VPN there.

[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean you don't wanna use a Syrian VPN server , or you don't wanna use a VPN if you ever lived in Syria ?

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't wanna use a Syrian VPN server. I'm familiar with the name of the country which means there's some kind of controversy happening there. That's how I hear about places. πŸ˜…

[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well the only thing you would get from a Syrian VPN server is no ads on Meta - YouTube and a few other apps , otherwise you'd need a VPN for the VPN to use things that aren't available here .... like: indeed (jobs) , Netflix , Gitlab , linktree , Google play (mostly works but sometimes need a VPN ) and other things I can't remember

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The biggest insult Youtube could get. A person refusing to use it even when it had zero ads because it was heavy.

But, yes I agree Youtube mobile app is inefficient and reloads losing my place. Unfortunately, I have the same issue with grayjay making even that one a non-starter.

[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month ago

Ads is one of many bad parts about YouTube

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

If they made YouTube Premium a reasonable price I'd be more than happy to pay and I'm sure many people would to. I don't need YouTube Music, offer me a cheaper package without it. They're leaving so much money on the table and basically inviting people to used Vanced and shit instead.

Before when the countdown timer showed the duration of ad's I would let anything that was 2 ads collectively less than 1m play all the way through. Anything longer than 30 seconds, even 31 seconds was an instant skip. Now that the countdown timer is gone, I assume every ad is longer and skip all of them.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

You will watch the super bowl ad. You will drink the verification can.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

makes sense, since we're on youtube for the ads

laughs in revanced

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

The website interface on mobile works well enough and on mobile Firefox you can install ublock origin. Made me uninstall a bunch of apps and use their web version instead.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Build those clients

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Use NewPipe