The "Youtube vs users" battle about how complicated they can make of for ad lockers has been frustrating to watch already.<p>But if they follow through and just cut us off at some point then fine. I ditched the habits of Facebook and Twitter, I'll learn to live without YouTube.<p>And before anyone argues to just pay up, I'm already subscribed to enough creators directly. I'm not giving Google one cent.
Logged in I am wildly mistargeted. When I go anonymous via private browsing, the YT ads are soft core porn. Is Google having trouble with inventory or ???
This is why I have stopped logging in to my Google account when watching videos on YouTube.<p>Google is still fingerprinting me, of course, and applying their recommendation algorithm to what they show me on the default page, but at least they can't ban my Google account for violating their terms.<p>I will never stop using ad blockers. If I that means I'm blocked from accessing some web sites, then so be it.
Husband has been seeing these absolutely bottom barrel ai generated ads for boner pills in the middle of his videos.<p>I'm honestly shocked every time I'm exposed to ads these days. It's gotten <i>dire</i>.
The idea that creators are being impacted negatively is purposefully dishonest.<p>- It suggests that what youtube cares about is creators and not their own profit margin, which is false<p>- It suggests that adblock users should be the ones to change their behavior, where Google could immediately simply pay the creators more for a much larger impact<p>- It ignores the plain facts of youtubes consistently increasing revenue.(1)<p>Companies should be held to a basic level of honest communication that this fails to meet.<p>(1) <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/youtube-ad-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1236048205/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/you...</a>
>If you look at the image closely, you’ll notice a ‘skipping ads’ button on the bottom left, which gives us clues about what could be happening. While none of these users have disclosed whether they are using an ad blocker, the second image clearly shows one in the works.<p>>It’s possible that if you are using an ad blocker, YouTube is able to detect it and present you with an absurdly long, unskippable ad. There’s also a possibility that the ad blocker itself is glitching out the ad and its duration. Some comments have mentioned that the ad blocker could have blocked the ‘Skip’ button from showing up and subsequently failed to block the long ad, worsening the ad situation.
Still doesn't completely add up to me.<p>Who would even <i>produce</i> a 1- or 10- or even 90-hours long ad? Like, what advertiser would put that into the exchange? What would be their expectations?<p>Seems more likely to me YouTube is playing tricks here and just playing regular ads on repeat. Or selecting random other regular videos and playing them as ads, or something.<p>In those cases, it would at least be a clear case of punishment against ad-blocking users and not a "malfunction".<p>(I assume that no one went through the trouble of actually leaving the video on for 90 hours. So unless someone captured the video file, we have no idea if the displayed duration is actually correct)
Using uBlock and SponsorBlock here. I subscribe to a handful of channels I regularly watch, all of which have Patreons I throw a couple bucks to every month (about $14 bucks). No regrets.
Are the "ads" just a random youtube video?<p>The pictures seem to indicate that and I really doubt somebody is uploading a 2h52m ad to youtube.