Anyone else getting continuous adverts from YouTube?
As per the title, anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube, making it impossible to watch anything on Youtube? Cant jump forward as it goes straight to an advert, even started watching youtube channels in the search list, but the youtube controls keep changing as well as well as dissappearing. One even managed to crash the computer, wiped out the screen, the keyboard, the mouse.
Keep getting an Eon advert over and over again, 20 seconds long, singing away something about time is running out, and then immediately after the Eon advert loads of junk adverts for spurious health conditions which all seem to be voiced over by the same bloke?
Google seems like it’s quietly in serious trouble based on how they’ve really really cranked up the ads.
On mobile YouTube every third item is an ad. On google search I now get 5-6 YouTube links before a bunch of AI clickbait fuelled by adsense, and then maybe Wikipedia and other legit site are listed… maybe… on the first page.
I’m currently migrating my habits to avoiding search engines in general, but using DDG (which I might stick with) when I need to.
> anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube
No -- because I download anything I might want to watch from youtube with yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation) and then watch with my native viewer -- so no ads, besides those the creators insert directly into the video itself.
On the (adblocked) computer, no. On my console (hooked up the to the TV) it's so unpleasant that I rarely use it any more. Worse than broadcast television, which is some sort of achievement.
No, using ublock origin and don’t see any ads.
I just got an invoice from Norton (alledgedly) and I don't use it. And it included a telephone numvber for a Debt Recovery company. We need to have wire and mail fraud extended to include email, with a bounty for Whistleblowers.
At home, I use bind rpz adblock, which uses the same domain lists pihole uses. Everywhere else, I do see ads, which usually means I stay offline when I'm not home.
I watched a 28 minute long ad last weekend on my phone. Is there some place that shows stats on how many ads of various lengths are delivered and not skipped / how much was watched per length?
I used to use YT for background while I worked. I stopped when they started butting in every 5-10 minutes with an ad, at upped volume, which sorta defeated the point.
Nope, ublock origin and revanced are working gine for me
Using ublock origin I’ve started to see adds on chrome. If I click back and then forward, it skips the ads. This occurs only at the start of videos afaict.
They've declared war on adblockers, without any regard if that makes the experience miserable for all users. That is a move doomed to fail in the long run, and being the monopolist won't help them much as the day AI can be used to filter out junk from videos and reupload them on a decentralized platform using p2p is not that far from happening.