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i thank this man every day for inspiring enough spite in me to download an ad blocker
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Oh I've got a great idea I hate people blocking ads so we're going to put more ads so people will block ads harder!

Guys 60min ads can't be a mistake because why would youtube even HAVE ads that long. It's not like they're autoplaying a bunch of 3 or 10min ads back to back. If you think the unskippable part is a mistake then

lol...lmao
 
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This definitely feels like pajeet executives at work. They can't think of anything more to do with Goog's model but press people with extortionate shit who are using its services. Non-monetization no longer a default setting. Ads on Docs shit like spreadsheets is probably coming soon. They'll do more and more of this as time goes on.
You can't even watch 20 year old low-quality videos without ads anymore that were published when the platform was ad-free. Serving the ad costs them more resources than letting the video stay unmonetized.

Whether or not this is some punishment routine targeted at (outdated) adblock/sponsorblock builds, all it really does is come off like they're scamming businesses. Horrible publicity, but Indians are aliens to shame so they won't understand.
 
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Sabrina said:
Oh I've got a great idea I hate people blocking ads so we're going to put more ads so people will block ads harder!

Guys 60min ads can't be a mistake because why would youtube even HAVE ads that long. It's not like they're autoplaying a bunch of 3 or 10min ads back to back. If you think the unskippable part is a mistake then

lol...lmao
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The enshittification of YouTube has reached a point to where Google is spraying hot diarrhea all over the platform with a pressure-hose.
 
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anon101x said:
I wonder how this will affect the children growing up on tablets. Not saying us adults didn't suffer ads as children but it didn't seem so bad. Especially us older adults. We'd see ads on TV, or billboards, or whatever. But holy shit the more and more intense the digital age gets where screens are in every single fucking corner of society.
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Even traditional ads have gotten worse.
Look at Time Square...
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Blocking ads will only entice more blockery and more clever ways to do it from the adblocker's side. YouTube is fighting a war against adblockers, but said war is more of a guerrilla war that YouTube is fighting with conventional tactics. I.E. they are fighting like the US fought Vietnam, and its going to fail for the same reasons.
 
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I know stories like this are the ones that cause the most outrage, but can we also talk about the fact that both the YouTube website and app are insanely broken in every possible way?

I click a video in Watch Later, and it loads the video for a half second, then redirects to the homepage every single time.

I try to drag videos in my Watch Later to reorganize the list, then I refresh and they've all returned to their original order.

I add a video to a playlist, and it's added twice. I try to delete one of the duplicates, and it deletes the original too.

I try to open the text bar to write a comment, and the entire YouTube app freezes for a good minute, then the keyboard finally appears. God forbid you tap the screen during this time, or the keyboard just disappears again and you have to wait another minute.

I scrub through the video's timeline on mobile and drop the needle, but instead it just continues from where I was before I scrubbed through.

The app constantly loses my Chromecasts and I have to set them back up for YouTube to see them again.

I click on "You" where it's supposed to display my watch history and playlists, but one or both are missing until I refresh the page.

Not to mention all the features they just plain remove with updates.

How is the largest corporation on earth so shitty at designing a product? Is it pajeets or what?
 
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stares at error messages said:
The next step will be to stream the video and the ad in the same stream, so you can't block the ad without blocking the video. Enjoy Youtube sponsored by the home shopping network and QVC.

Does anyone else smell like curry in here or is it just me?

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Neal Mohan, current CEO of Youtube, was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He was born in the United States on 1973 July 14 before moving to India with his family in 1985. In 1992, he moved back to the U.S. and attended Stanford University. He majored in electrical engineering and graduated in 1996. Mohan started working at Accenture, before joining a startup called NetGravity. He swiftly became a prominent figure within the company.
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I almost miss Susan, she was rubbish, but at least she tried to look like she cared about the human side of YT.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
You can still record the video on OBS and save it on your computer. Granted, you will have to edit the ads out, but I guess this is the closest thing we got now.
Fuck youtube, at this point I would rather watch someone screenrecord a video watched by another person just so that I don't have to go on that site directly.
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I know what you mean, but someone unfortunately still needs to request/watch the video with an age-verified account.
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I know stories like this are the ones that cause the most outrage, but can we also talk about the fact that both the YouTube website and app are insanely broken in every possible way?

I click a video in Watch Later, and it loads the video for a half second, then redirects to the homepage every single time.

I try to drag videos in my Watch Later to reorganize the list, then I refresh and they've all returned to their original order.

I add a video to a playlist, and it's added twice. I try to delete one of the duplicates, and it deletes the original too.

I try to open the text bar to write a comment, and the entire YouTube app freezes for a good minute, then the keyboard finally appears. God forbid you tap the screen during this time, or the keyboard just disappears again and you have to wait another minute.

I scrub through the video's timeline on mobile and drop the needle, but instead it just continues from where I was before I scrubbed through.

The app constantly loses my Chromecasts and I have to set them back up for YouTube to see them again.

I click on "You" where it's supposed to display my watch history and playlists, but one or both are missing until I refresh the page.

Not to mention all the features they just plain remove with updates.

How is the largest corporation on earth so shitty at designing a product? Is it pajeets or what?
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Almost all of these problems I have experienced myself, and they are all related to ad or script blocking. Because the entire site is incapable of functioning without loading 400MB of fucking pajeetscript, and of course the useful functionality is intermingled with telemetry or ad code you lose big random chunks of functionality in exchange for a bit of privacy.
 
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I like the excuse that some rando's bad YouTube experience is because they or maybe someone else is using adblockers...shifting blame, any?
 
Maybe if YouTube wasn't pure shit at this point, I wouldn't have a reason to continue using adblockers as I have for all these years.

I shouldn't be seeing the same videos over and over again, most that I've already seen, under my "For You." Worse yet is when I'm wanting music, it's just youtube-made playlists of songs I've heard before instead if anything different and there's no way to turn that stupid shit off.

Half the time, the other tab options don't appear. When they do, "New To You" is pretty trash and I find myself refreshing multiple times in hopes of something decent.
 
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W'rkncacnter said:
Anyone remember back in like 2017 some black kid had a 2 hour 30 minute ad running of his shitty mixtape.
The worst part was youtube at the time would keep showing you the same ad if you tried to not watch it so people were stuck watching a feature length film of some kid rapping.
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The worst I've ever seen was some 3 hours business conference that was made into an ad for some reason.
 
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